The Telegraph Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2019 08 26

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Fresh chapter on English film director CLEAN
Manage to perform surgery OPERATE
Activity outside called mad DERANGED
Pilot to decline cheapest accommodation STEERAGE
Unexpected defeat of leading group UPSET
Humiliated dramatist's young children SMALLFRY
STAUNCH GOOD MAN HAVING ME BACK STEM
Additional matter involving learner driver PLUS
Wine in fancy red and gold carton brought round BORDEAUX
Shop available to rent OUTLET
Herb from bog by north-eastern lake FENNEL
Extra number gathering for dancing NOBALL
BLACKLEG SEEN IN SMALL COMPARTMENT OF CRANE SCAB
SEE 26 DOWN POST
Compost: I reel, first off FERTILISER
Most of stake invested in sheltered US city SANTAFE
Plain to see, legal document attached to bumper WRITLARGE
Don't see as many shining SPOTLESS
Seasoning used when cooking duck with fresh orange OREGANO
Soon rule Charlie out ANON
Fish in deep taken by aquatic mammal, mostly SEABASS
Topliner running police force INTERPOL
A US lawyer, male, swallowing drop of salt water ADAMSALE
Benefactor in party, no Republican DONOR
Express one's views over coniferous tree OPINE
Wonky table? Complain BLEAT
Severity of a gash seen plastered on top of shoulder ACUTENESS
Hard worker, maybe, after car dealer MERCHANT
Waste day with Arctic explorer DROSS
Mopeds crashed on slippery snow leading to racecourse EPSOMDOWNS
See trees, now spread across fine national park NEWFOREST
The promotion of friendly relations -- Thomas Telford's forte? BRIDGEBUILDING
Under canvas, firmly fixed? INTENT
& 24 Least likely station for a bugle call LAST
Sink, perhaps, in event FIXTURE
LEFT, HEADING FOR SCOTLAND AFTER WALES, DRUNK AND DISORDERLY LAWLESS
Celebrity beginning to lose tail STAR
Close deal over cocoa, perhaps NIGHTCAP
Mould in shed CAST
Scoundrel ringing with lie about dog ROTTWEILER
Flower power struggles? WARSOFTHEROSES
In print as 'Sordello', Italian poet TASSO
CAPTION, FOR EXAMPLE, APPEARING IN ADVANCE LEGEND
Long-suffering doctor's client PATIENT
THEREFORE COVER IS RELIABLE SOLID
Appease the head penning most of material PLACATE
A finely dressed person, moreover ASWELL
FINISH WITH TERRIBLY SORE BACK ENDORSE
Fine offer resolved it FORFEIT
New listener just round the corner NEAR
Standing by one detailed bid ONCALL
Supports doubt over locks BUTTRESSES
Author born essentially healthy ORWELL
Appear in bishop's office before mass SEEM
MAGISTRATE IMPRISONING DAUGHTER FOR DECEPTION DODGE
Reverse: regret road crumbling RETROGRADE
In a silly way, unfriendly going round course CHILDISHLY
Famous Swede in book received by boy NOBEL
Hardly a guy gets embarrassed ILLATEASE
Horse from stable popular round ring STALLION