The Telegraph Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2021 08 26

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Deliverer of goods tricks uninformed worker needing dispatch CONSIGNOR
Plant knocked over in dark office OKRA
We will be not half embarrassed and polite WELLBRED
Cleric involved in secret sin immediately shown up MINISTER
A reason for empty chairs in our country? BRAINDRAIN
Maureen is on phone -- somewhere for overnight stay needed MOTEL
Close friend -- solitary, it's said, facing position of defeat SOULMATE
Heads condemning wrong decided on a new course of action? CHANGEDONESMIND
Country singer returned offering a few notes maybe CASHBACK
Strip of metal or wood to chuck outside FLASHING
You'd want me in an emergency? I'd let you down! PARACHUTE
Odd bits of old material specially fashioned for customer TAILORMADE
Single old females escape for adventure perhaps RUNOFF
Asian fellows taken in by heretic ARMENIAN
Pollution maybe from industry DUST
Bone in fish -- meal putting me off CARPAL
Power one observed in catty type leading a new church PUISSANCE