The Telegraph Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2021 05 09

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Tool for tidying up back SWEEPER
Canine tip POINTER
Productions bringing passion into heart of actress THEATRE
Draw in a pamphlet, ringing middle of picture ATTRACT
Crime in casinos ramped up ARSON
Strange, off and on OUTRE
Quiet man heard? PEACE
Cutting wood, a popular apprentice TRAINEE
Darn freezing! PERISHING
Secret police probing rookie officer, virtually dismissed CASTASIDE
A pretence backfiring for old storyteller AESOP
Very detailed, certain it's complicated INTRICATE
Fish in crocodile, perhaps? SNAPPER
Originally attacking less, it's better in defence ALIBI
Delighted first of prisoners let out PLEASED
Put in again, checks unlikely REINSTALL
List covering revolutionary character in romantic novel ROCHESTER
Worm finally caught by a parting, wandering bird PTARMIGAN
Leave small stuff SCRAM
Old clown, I blunder into drugs? PIERROT