The Telegraph – TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 3,212 – Feb 2 2024 Clues and Solutions
Clues | Answers |
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American soldier’s holding back Australian female troops | AMAZONS |
Angry civil riot expressing intense ill-will | VITRIOLIC |
Approach experts intermittently pairing up? | ACCESS |
Bill hit pinching skirts of curvy, round old maid | TABBYCAT |
Brandy receptacle returned by unimportant employee | COGNAC |
Bring into operation deal, perhaps accepting unknown backing | EXERT |
Bump off prison guards and abscond from security | JUMPBAIL |
Capital question announced to which ‘No, she walked’ is an answer | DJAKARTA |
Clever defence disheartened newspaper | DEFT |
Contribution made by home university in past | INPUT |
David, maybe taking time, ending off suss laws | STATUTES |
Dingo ultimately hiding in retreat, sore from the bottom up | WARRIGAL |
Excessive amps smothering piano before Die Fledermaus, say | OPERETTA |
Fault insulating new plug | BUNG |
Figure nothing’s left in hookah | OBLONG |
Grill lawyers, bishop and queen | BARBQ |
Clues | Answers |
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Half of sentences on crux of pithy Apocryphal book | JUDITH |
Major service provider immediately stops gas | ETHENE |
Novel sea mammal regularly fished out | EMMA |
On radio, possibly Old Man River is most sublime | GREATEST |
Pitched until tedium’s set in | TILTED |
Played radiant prelude | intrada |
Rescue from scrape that’s hard going | SAVE |
Richer gambler right on track? | BETTEROFF |
Shout about Republican punch-up | BRAWL |
Slit got repositioned in vocal opening | GLOTTIS |
Take away, divide on both sides, carry over, start to total | DETRACT |
This may give Maria quite a shock | MOONQUAKE |
US marshal’s perfect listening device | EARPHONE |
Very nearly skinned fish and gutted smelt | ALMOST |
Volunteers terribly maudlin state | TAMILNADU |
Whiff of purpose lifting son and mother | MIASMA |