The Telegraph Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2023 07 11

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Stylish base on a font? Not half! ELEGANT
Writer's shoes sister regularly removed HESSE
Stream bound to hold gallons SURGE
Spy has no open cases SNOOP
Seems a paper's ordered APPEARS
Scots rant about differences CONTRASTS
Returning weapon? BOOMERANG
Leader who died in ship's hold NELSON
Jumbo runs, consumed by mouse on ground ENORMOUS
Is in taxi turning over key BASIC
I ban no book after marvellous David Copperfield? MAGICIAN
Hire actors, unfortunately ignoring current group of players ORCHESTRA
Four seen entering sexual festival CARNIVAL
Former media, say EXPRESS
Following a newspaper lead in Essex, right? AFTER
Flowers put back in greenhouses, originally ROSES
Detest keeping in one European city for winter HIBERNATE
Cracked a nicer nut? Open to question UNCERTAIN
Concludes dish almost cracks DISSOLVES
Nuts beside small birds CUCKOOS