The Telegraph Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2023 05 25

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Cause trouble on hospital department ENTAIL
Conservative, safe and dreary CHARMLESS
Count of French prison died DEPEND
Destroy revolting rodents in time DECIMATE
Drink while consumed by drink TOAST
Express contains dire empty testimony EVIDENCE
Finished school, reportedly EATEN
Fool, say, beginning to succumb in wilderness DESSERT
Free from sex, one rat explained ... EXONERATE
Individual round Alien Queen uprising DISCRETE
Initially intelligent? No, alas, not exactly! INANE
Left crew circling English Channel? REMAINING
Life of priest in strange order ESPRIT
One's taken in show seeing Nirvana PARADISE
Perfume from a foreign capital AROMA
Some fantasies taboo for sleep SIESTA
Stop drinking endless beer, it's common PREVALENT
United Nations' record is wavering UNSTABLE
Unlocks last of zoo cages OPENS
Oglers, I fancy, surrounding a harem SERAGLIO
Destruction of atmosphere reversed DOOM
Adherent of pop art is a nut PARTISAN
A real turn-up's somehow being psychic SUPERNATURAL
... odd meaning about word 'sex' INTERMITTENT