The Telegraph Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2022 08 07

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Virtue has come after loss of business, I say! GOODNESSME
White pile ground down first SNOWDRIFT
Revolutionary queen I love for so long CHEERIO
Narrator, one working in bank TELLER
Item of jewellery, article for troublemaker RINGLEADER
Holiday dance TRIP
Green water, ebbing NAIVE
Gradually soften what has melted THAW
Crooked when horizontal? LYING
Alliance broken, leaving one cold initially BLOC
Christmas book, middle torn out NOEL
American writer in West Germany, he travels ERNESTHEMINGWAY
Pass wobbly desk to man DONTASKME
Strangely, one isn't a European ESTONIAN
Testament, word of introduction for play OTHELLO
Cane and single bullet for collection WHIPROUND
City where group of witches go COVENTRY
Hairy spider's ending in drink WHISKERY
Large vessel left empty, article scoffed by pig OILTANKER
One line redacted in documents, working for old PM WILSON