The Telegraph – TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 3,211 – Feb 1 2024 Clues and Answers
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| Add humour to difficult situation, heading off doom almost entirely | LIGHTEN |
| Alert, as you’d expect the Marines to be? | ALARM |
| American composer, person almost enthralling both sides | BERLIN |
| Astronomical measure taking pages in work on hydrogen filters, possibly | DOPPLERSHIFT |
| Away to finish revolt | OFFEND |
| Book, sale item gent returned in South-Western city | BRISTOL |
| Books, in current form, adopted by generous visionary | FANTASIST |
| Fine drink, with second consumed? Not so | FALSE |
| Fixed gaze from detective not favouring discretion | EYECONTACT |
| Flapper beginning to dabble in sport? No great amount | GOLDFINCH |
| Flower covering half of lake? That’s probable | LIKELY |
| German design centre’s expression of annoyance about University linking to Australia | BAUHAUS |
| Good storyteller held back object of quest | GRAIL |
| Greek island runs hot with poems by Sappho? | RHODES |
| Leader of Spain is repeatedly collaring European wets | SISSIES |
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| Limitations to dialogue, as it happens, precluding one search | DELVE |
| Malaysian city swamped by surplus vitality | SPARKLE |
| Need to bracket anything Republican in sounds of hilarity | LAUGHTRACK |
| Observe Germany is leading European research centre | DISCERN |
| Poor illumination, with line disconnected, offering some constraint | SKINTIGHT |
| Quantity of hair standing up on head of University tutor? | GURU |
| Repository of champagne: pour after formality? | ICEBUCKET |
| Significant attempt to suppress love, showing prejudice | BIGOTRY |
| Sound of steam-train initially cut — something done on board? | HUFF |
| Survivors beginning to read extracts, needing to forget one island | RELICTS |
| Tough vegetable, not cooked at first | HARD |
| Unusual things father noticed about woman and blokes pursuing love | PHENOMENA |
| Upset in tummy seems a response by this? | IMMUNESYSTEM |
| What’s best with tart? | SOURCREAM |
| Worthless sort initially dumped for reliable sort | ROCK |