The Telegraph Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2019 12 30

crossword answers
Clue Answer
BLUE FISH, HARD TO BE MISSED SAD
Good science, science of good eating GASTRONOMY
Joke, blue – severe measures required CRACKDOWN
Area of land in Israeli port ACRE
Intend to own hollow iron object HAVEINMIND
Car isn't at manor, unfortunately ASTONMARTIN
The cartoonist sacked with little warning ATSHORTNOTICE
Stuff about worker? Such may be classified WANTAD
Identity disc porter returned NAMETAG
Grandmaster tackling shrewd Welshman GWILYM
Sheep in wood, by the sound of it EWE
Sigh having lost good horse ROAN
Is wearing shades – they may cause irritation NUISANCES
Opposed to poetry, mostly by us VERSUS
SLIGHTLY ECCENTRIC LITTLE GIRL DOTTY
Leave ahead of popular new movie HOLIDAYINN
Slow learner expected to grasp new chapter DUNCE
ALMOST ROUND FRUIT PLUM
There's nothing more to be said, taking everything into account ALLTOLD
PLOT CLANDESTINE LOVE AFFAIR INTRIGUE
Schoolgirl and I on an assignment MISSION
PUT A STOP TO PUBLIC RELATIONS INCIDENT PREVENT
Tell during class INFORM
CONSUME SMALL ROLL SWALLOW
Fruit in espagnole Maxim's served up MELON
China's top horse race CROWNDERBY
Odd stole worn at theme park ALTONTOWERS
RECOMMEND LIQUEUR WITHOUT ONE TRACE OF ANISEED? ECSTASY! ADVOCATE
Couple on river bank TIER
Gen on metro broadcast in Balkan country MONTENEGRO
Monk, perhaps, a person of unchanging routines CREATUREOFHABIT
Children's favourite appearing in Stuyvesant adverts SANTA
Peer over there soon after the start EARLYON
Pay attention to appropriate message TAKENOTE
By oneself in plant pinching indefinite number ALONE
Directive popular with union INJUNCTION
Extremely stark, the old Hebridean island SKYE
Product of a man with oils? MONALISA
Guy after state pension? It could be cash received without much effort MONEYFOROLDROPE
Bird: ruddy duck FLAMINGO
Elected to rent in bay INLET
Fortune made by opportunist? Not quite CHANCE
Staple food in Sumer, originally, back in time SAGO
Only music genre listened to? SOLE
Purgative quietly swallowed by some poorly sailors EPSOMSALTS
A street apart AWAY
One imposed upon, pensioner by American soldiers JOESOAP
Husband on board drab little boat DINGHY
Old coin found in East European train EDUCATE
Coroner out of order -- deed, at last, documented ONRECORD
Dictator, in reality, ran tests TYRANT
Left in order to find fortress CASTLE
Ready for action, his own epitaph prepared WHIPINTOSHAPE
Linda uncertain about one Jane Austen novel, finding it hard to choose? INADILEMMA