The Telegraph – TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 3,178 – Dec 6, 2023, Answers
The Telegraph – TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 3,178 – Dec 6 2023
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| A large supermarket stores soft drink | ALCOPOP |
| A number of sailors have to accept time in slum | SHANTYTOWN |
| African from really African country | SOMALI |
| Alarming changes ready to overwhelm a nervous MP here? | MARGINALSEAT |
| Anteater, say, in gallery at the back of garden | EDENTATE |
| Asked what model did | POSED |
| Attending entertaining party, people feeling embarrassed | ABASHMENT |
| Bereft of assistance, drunk as well as sober | HIGHANDDRY |
| Bit of song? Song’s intro, obviously | SNATCH |
| Cooked greens, in the main, rolled around in relish | EAGERNESS |
| Did a spring clean naked? Choose to conceal nothing | LEAPT |
| Disengaged attitude in course filling up a year | APATHY |
| Drive from centre of Thurso, say, northwards | URGE |
| Fresh mint chopped around sweet course, ultimately | IMPUDENT |
| Guy making crack | CHAP |
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| In case of collapse, call shrink | CRINGE |
| Like a Scot, or possibly Japanese | ASIAN |
| List and track staff in community organisation | ROTARYCLUB |
| Media hasn’t succeeded with old forecast | PRESAGED |
| Most ordered tea, we hear, that is taken around one | TIDIEST |
| One getting free case loaded with game meat | ESCAPOLOGIST |
| Peer in entrance to vintner’s, one with French cheese | VICOMTE |
| Queen covered by country stars | URSA |
| Refusal and agreement? Flipping curious! | NOSEY |
| Source of current trouble, something used by a sailor | MAINSAIL |
| Surrogate father perhaps promises to square up | VICARIOUS |
| Swans around island with trendy talent for writing | PENMANSHIP |
| Thus spies possibly skinny party grandee? | SOCIALITE |
| Uncouth child withdrawing before blunder | YOBBISH |
| Utterance seeking attention in extremely pretentious way | PSST |