The Telegraph Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2022 08 26

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Cook tasted sampling whiskey and battered flies? SWATTED
Creature making a little bear mad -- I'll observe ARMADILLO
Dancing galore, taking in learner's musical 9 Across ALLEGRO
Defence revealed in tabloid -- bail oddly rejected ALIBI
Dream of cooler siesta, frolicking FANTASISE
Guaranteed right to enter petition in extremity ENSURED
Hammer slowly or fast RAPIDLY
Hesitate to get agitated about fine AESTHETIC
Labour opponents knock back housing article ENDEAVOUR
Paid occasional visits to sierran region of Portugal MADEIRA
Second nag is a non-starter OTHER
Silly inflammatory stuff, admitting I'm turning Conservative COMICAL
Sinister group stifling publicity -- one may be criminal CULPRIT
Some elements of orchestra may be nervous, almost taking pot TIMPANI
Telegraph supports farm food being wild HAYWIRE
Willowy Kate Moss illustration partly printed upside-down LISSOME