The Telegraph Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2022 12 05

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Understood he'd one line in play from start to finish GOTHEDISTANCE
Tree died after onset of blight -- wood rot BALDERDASH
Transvestite's undergarment? VEST
Tense time to come FUTURE
Snail races curiously received ESCARGOT
Small beer following fish, or gammon CODSWALLOP
Quarrel involving silver upper-class car JAGUAR
Ouse winding across English county, lastly, is so long SEEYOU
One used to lift one's spirits? EXORCIST
One landed in Scotland from Bel Air, delayed LAIRD
Lose minutes approaching Hebridean island MISLAY
I recalled novel about knight in rags-to-riches story CINDERELLA
Girl I courted, originally in Italian city VERONICA
Gift -- no charge -- be my guest FEELFREE
Desert bug DEFECT
Common sense of former PM facing question GREYMATTER
Case is located in valley VALISE
Bully husband, clergyman heading off HECTOR
Bill Sikes's dog's sweet BULLSEYE