The Telegraph Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2021 07 11

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Opening bit for spokesperson MOUTHPIECE
Duck caught by male grouse MOAN
Corrupt mates in power STEAM
Lecturer boarding cutter, forgiving type PARDONER
Award returned in spring, no good GONG
Corking line about conversion of pope STOPPERING
Cut made by champions? TOPSIDE
Lost, as a boat may be? ATSEA
Some bar I drank dry! ARID
Spectacle seeing insect on leaf PAGEANT
Burnt fish, like snapper say? CHARRED
For example, fine writer is into beer PENALISE
Liberal showing no mercy UNSPARING
Divide by two (well divided by five) HALVE
Sew name originally on right shirt or trousers, say? MENSWEAR
New leaf let go in French bean FLAGEOLET
Early years at home, complicated INFANCY
Asian trio hard at it, originally THAI
Bully I'd found in buddy INTIMIDATE
Wrongdoing in cooler, scarcely contained INJUSTICE
Base failing, reportedly? FLOOR
French novelist's sound rock SANDSTONE
Gold figure kept in empty cabinet for crown CORONET
Felon conveyed agreement CONSENT
Half came, one in twelve descended from French colonists CAJUN