The Telegraph – TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 3,195 – Jan 4, 2024, Clues and Answers
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| Applied transfers | HANDSON |
| Case unfinished in month, needing year to establish pro-women rule | MATRIARCHY |
| Cat lady’s limitations? One will abandon nothing | LYNX |
| Celebrity flat is a place for comment? | NOTEPAD |
| Chief plant-holder, overturned, almost cracked | TOPBANANA |
| Crime discovered after quantity of money turns up | ROLLSIN |
| Don’t come to see comedian | STANDUP |
| Expression of love involving ultimately playful smack | FLAVOUR |
| Failure to limit minor upset for busy German city | DUSSELDORF |
| Favourite time, tucking into dessert? One could shift some drink | PIPETTE |
| Fine, perhaps, to fight where shootout occurs? | PENALTYBOX |
| Fool entering shot with old artist | PICASSO |
| Frighten one away from person following regime | DETER |
| Goes on binge, losing head — wakes | AROUSES |
| Have nothing to do with criminal injury provided by soldiers | ABHOR |
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| I am surprised about work without much purpose | MOPY |
| I feel bad backing lad’s affair | LIAISON |
| I will study team on the left, making the wrong choice? | ILLCONSIDERED |
| Irish writer quick to support king’s son | JONATHANSWIFT |
| Leading figure to make small point in front of our group’s historian | HERODOTUS |
| Look after new money after dropping penny | NURSE |
| Mockery and a lot of anger over US city | IRONY |
| Number covered by dreadful group | BAND |
| Post Office, suppressing recent failure, compromised image | PHOTOBOMB |
| Rhubarb served up with American donut | TORUS |
| Schoolboy howler not at first recalled | PUPIL |
| Succeed in love, though not in accepting love | PASS |
| Such, if replanted, will lead to a blossom | FUCHSIA |
| Union arrangement ended quiet operation | CLOSEDSHOP |
| Yearns to be seen around facilities in underwear | LONGJOHNS |