The Telegraph Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2023 02 13

crossword answers
Clue Answer
One who's pragmatic about top celebrities? REALIST
Science, principally, reportedly grabs students SCHOLARS
Away team risk a long shot OUTSIDECHANCE
Boffin, for example, good leader EGGHEAD
BLACK BIRD DOG BEAGLE
Best nuts and biscuits CREAMCRACKERS
Very much involved, want to enter tower KNEEDEEP
Veteran suffered EXPERIENCED
Seafood fraud private investigator reveals SCAMPI
Actress, having stitch in side, retired MAEWEST
Film a vessel joining a river AVATAR
EXTEND PRISON TERM STRETCH
Put out when mine is swallowed by bar worker INDIGNANT
A couple of pianos increase in value APPRAISE
Visit a nurse following onset of tetanus ATTEND
Expedition heading for Surtsey, a distant island SAFARI
Express a point of view over coniferous tree OPINE
Information, given prior to summit, in contradictory language NEWSPEAK
Very scary, shock increasing HAIRRAISING
Wistfulness may be shown by lots again in resort NOSTALGIA
Leaders in Israel did address head of state IDAHO
Snapped after apartment cleaned out FLATBROKE
Tense, small daughter finds river TWEED
Brief period in deficit SHORTAGE
King's wife in dread at sea EDWARD
Select English, low in calories ELITE
Well-known short novel, Rider's first for Longmans' PUBLISHER