The Telegraph Toughie - Crossword Answers | 2022 09 22

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Nearly explode finding mistake GOOF
Press copy runs in vacuous press PAPERS
Red mullet, say, always being caught FEVERISH
Reluctant to wear Church dress CLOTHE
River found in one's estate ACRES
China facing retreat returning data MATERIAL
Bible is certain about reported tomb? SCRIPTURE
Beam's losing head seeing dessert AFTERS
Attack ends of excessive beard GOATEE
Rule empire including glorious nation, initially? REIGN
Spontaneous former English politician in split EXTEMPORE
LIVERY STABLE UNIFORM
Some tommyrot, arrant, holding up storyteller NARRATOR
Sitting in sun around garden yard SEDENTARY
Not really fair giving corner NOOK
Morning, since not a person rises FORENOON
Incorrigible kind welcoming Tories' leader CONGENITAL
Endless mortar secures loose rocks SCREE
American writer, almost beat, getting lyrical POETIC
End perhaps providing cold comfort CEASE
After second service slice flipping cheese here? MOUSETRAP