The Telegraph Toughie - Crossword Answers | 2023 02 24

crossword answers
Clue Answer
SEE 12 ACROSS THINK
Little European pond-dweller TADPOLE
Maybe bad press is sadly what initiates recrimination and signals fracas SLINGSANDARROWS
Offensive peasant's cutting wood THICKET
Helpful figures retained by blind ice-skaters INDICES
Help one might have slicing cheese and chocolate cake BROWNIE
Protege perhaps primarily obsessed by a post yet unfilled OXYTONE
Was stooping lower intended to miss end of eaves? DEIGNED
Wallflower's plea to reverse ban? EMBARGO
SEE 11 ACROSS KICK
& 3 Down Attempt to score set off 'smart' guy, seizing crown from Kyrgios GOAL
SEE 12 ACROSS ALIKE
SEE 12 ACROSS MINDS
SEE 6 DOWN FOOT
It's impossible to do Conservative parked on single yellow line SQUARETHECIRCLE
SEE 27 DOWN BEAR
Like bottom feeders caught in a green uprising OCEANIC
Ill at ease, an arty type joins cast ABASHED
Help lifting hotel cases assigned to a Dr Jones INDIANA
Certain users getting woozy inside trailer ASSURED
Bottom of class, repeatedly last in school set, awkwardly wearing dunce's cap for all to see DULLEST
Bone-breakers aboard ship check quartzite? STICKSANDSTONES
& 25 Across Resident in National Park, Four Seasons welcoming turn from Orbison YOGI
& 13 Across Podium options for London tripper? TUBE
SEE 23 ACROSS HOUR