The Telegraph Toughie - Crossword Answers | 2022 07 21

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Study audition of hell-raising actor READ
Medical officer in hearing given to making cracks? WITTY
Military hero leads to lively celebrations in festival ELCID
Prank caught by a tourist worker in turn CAPER
Show more dishonesty adopting new statement lacking details OUTLINE
Haggard female in family after end to partying GAUNT
Section of network's muting mildly offensive comments SMUT
Get too old for romantic meeting DATE
Figure left after period linked to fossil fuel? NUMERAL
Favour element disowning Republican BOON
Rarefied ground or site retained by English clubs ESOTERIC
Radical dictators take to posturing DRASTIC
Provisional line essentially followed by first person in style INTERIM
Kiwi dancer shortly in charge gets abdominal pain COLIC
Inventive sort taking round at home ordinary stuff MARCONI
Normal bargain for root vegetable PARSNIP
Casually agreed about eating crusts of overgrown bloomer PEONY
Large-scale Eastern film EPIC
Consider minutes taken in abandoned building at rear of office RUMINATE
City director firstly entertained by, maybe, a natural raconteur's device ANECDOTE
A wee pun again devised to encapsulate timeless place in country PAPUANEWGUINEA
Heroines oddly ignored for long periods EONS
Gloss over one-time trading association, reportedly GILD
Familiar airs unsettled saturnine guest SIGNATURETUNES