The Telegraph – TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 3,189 – Dec 26, 2023, Clues and Answers
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| Assumed one’s permitted to keep parking inside | IMPLICIT |
| Avoid scam | DODGE |
| Blast! … almost late rising | DRAT |
| Building reportedly hit on top at first? Certainly top’s missing | STRUCTURE |
| Called time on daughter taking Ecstasy | TERMED |
| Doctor sorry in Wilts | DROOPS |
| Encounter abrupt professional upsetting niece | EXPERIENCE |
| Ferried small child over sea miles away | TOTED |
| Fifty grand to imprison young rascal, it’s staggering | LURCHING |
| Gifted mafia boss pontificated after gold goes missing | DONATED |
| Hand one restores to health with these? | MANICURES |
| Head of church (non-clerical) has date to practise service here? | CLAYCOURT |
| Keeping tax cuts agitated senior rep | PRESERVATION |
| Language of fool wasting time with maiden | IDIOM |
| Left by end of fireworks display | SPORT |
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| Liberal, one seen in mass meeting? | CATHOLIC |
| Load menu liberally, admitting PM for the most part’s short of food | MALNOURISHED |
| Married, keeping promise at altar with or without partner | WIDOWED |
| Mike tucking into triple shake | TREMBLE |
| Offer fix, go up a size to start with | LEND |
| One with swollen head say gets lift wanting hospital | EGOIST |
| Outlook following a hint about temperature, it’s below 90 degrees | ACUTEANGLE |
| Refuse cider, essentially hammered | WASTED |
| Scholar shed tears from time to time in northern city | DONCASTER |
| Seal in lake perhaps? Verification to follow | WATERPROOF |
| Shirking one’s duty, a capital offence? | TAXEVASION |
| Stretch out scandal involving Tesla boss? | ELONGATE |
| Test rejected quantity of chemical — acid emerged | MEDICAL |
| Ultimately drives taxi to make a crust | SCAB |
| United leaving trap for winger | MOTH |