The Telegraph Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2018 10 24

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Spike protecting new weapon LANCE
Embarrassing church about call in front of dignitary CRINGEWORTHY
Refuse to acknowledge study on male chromosome DENY
Got up wet to get perfume ROSEWATER
Very keen on batting -- test opener originally! INTO
Vacant role for each politician in theatre REPERTORY
Owner favouring voting system that's to run PROPRIETOR
Lake in African republic only occupied by a tense business group CONGLOMERATE
A person who doesn't know may be stupidly smug on air IGNORAMUS
Slump sees daughter, impecunious, coming back DROOP
Student type of panel supplying energy welcomes central heating SCHOLAR
Right -- step up and go through again RECAP
Classic ingenuity, boxing Victoria's decoration? ICING
Instrument of pressure in armed services FORCEPS
Fellow citizen moving camp to civil disturbance COMPATRIOT
A pirate's rude song to be broadcast CORSAIR
Part of a garden scheme PLOT
Punter injured leg in door GONDOLIER
Confronted church absorbed by short-lived fashion FACED
Financial institution popular, of course, with Republican INSURER
Soldier's regular letters in verse ODE
Give back vacant residence and shop RESTORE
Depress detectives and try and catch up DISHEARTEN
Resigns in order to make an entrance INGRESS
Heretic caught invading various locations ICONOCLAST
CONDITIONS FOR PARTS OF SCHOOL YEAR TERMS
Genuine article pinched by relative in charge AUTHENTIC
A jar in the morning for broadcast beginning to appeal AMPHORA
Seeming attractive, having swapped sides APPEARING
Unwrapped smartest things to wear? NAPPIES
Stage performance as if deaf intermittently AIDA