The Telegraph Toughie - Crossword Answers | 2023 05 16

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Stuck in branches, treetop close, perhaps? STREET
Audio equipment offering choice of call, character phoning home HEADSET
Wrapped in material, case of Soave shut up again RESEAL
Fights during preliminary race, most serious HEAVIEST
Footwear on pirate BOOTLEG
Equines working a long time, guzzling last of water ONAGERS
Use force to get a compliment PRAISE
Current crossed by lads aboard craft -- lighter? ARSONIST
Wait in back of limo, opening some American wine? LOITER
German writer beginning on scarier, terrifying tale SCHILLER
Fashionable second course MODISH
Cash fine STERLING
Keats' almost sensational feeling about a subject of one of his odes NIGHTINGALE
Tool is grabbed by team when water cut off CHISEL
Brass bar as plunger? NECKLINE
Shabby material covering plain silk TABARET
Red little mark, fancifully? SCARLET