The Telegraph Toughie - Crossword Answers | 2023 04 12

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Warm to her, poor lowly creature EARTHWORM
Insult a fine compere AFFRONT
Italian food adopts right note for sliced meat PASTRAMI
One example of tree twine, we hear UNIT
Lively chap I wed loses head ANIMATED
CROW'S NEST? TEPEE
Lying open, one undergoing treatment has heart removed PATENT
Brown barrel Bill sent back WALNUT
Cheaper brand of champagne I once knocked back no good in retirement TATTIER
Boorish decline to enter work PLEBBY
Union's backstop is two powers blocking a French queen's return PRENUP
Centres in Peking, Bulgaria and Polish capital KIGALI
Gangster crosses street for finishing touch CAPSTONE
Square up a record involving literary outsiders PLAZA
Female abandoning Western country OMAN
Runner in drama to stir cast ADMINISTRATOR
Unconventional Western celebrity lout takes Independent BOHEMIAN
Sunk empty bottles -- not smart UNKEMPT
How a stupid eccentric, denied papers, becomes lefty SOUTHPAW
I have found Californian city! EUREKA
Sails, getting success in fish WHITINGS
Food adds a stone in some Asian countries FAREAST
Gorges along east flanks of airport start to sink OVEREATS