The Telegraph Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2024 01 01

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Play on words about educated girl, a strictly moral type PURITAN
Small instrument for piercing SHARP
Crime writer, richest I suspect CHRISTIE
Shy going to bed RETIRING
Patron has been upset over agent BENEFACTOR
Hairy creature, American, unlawfully occupied part of building in school SASQUATCH
Test team bonus ELEVENPLUS
Golf club's president's first to speak PUTTER
Attach cutting CLIP
Large gamble? That's highly unlikely FATCHANCE
Exercise system I discovered in full-page book illustrations PILATES
Don't complain as much about convincing demonstration OBJECTLESSON
Spanish man welcoming a tense politician SENATOR
Show son bins SPECTACLES
Catch slowcoach heading off NAIL
Hyperion, for one, it being cast in bronze TITAN
Paper in stand is English TREATISE
SEE 23 DOWN SHOT
LEFT IN CHARGE, TEENAGER'S OPENING WINE CLARET
Celebrity's debut cut short STAR
Refuse stretcher LITTER
Brusque, in sister's estimation TERSE