The Telegraph Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2023 08 11

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Near miss in traffic -- loses haversack CLOSESHAVE
Retaliation from adder possibly in fix COUNTERATTACK
Romeo cuts 'babe' -- it's kind of amusing DROLL
Local meeting's suppressing rent in part of Midlands DERBYSHIRE
Fake fur trade's disrupted FRAUDSTER
Drivers keeping learner in second place in Texas ALAMO
? CLUELESS
Nearly make taps get too hot SCORCH
British miss spot where star used to appear BLACKHOLE
Some 'dirty rat' in Ukrainian revolutionary collective UNITARY
First light vacation accompanying date DAYBREAK
Taking up rugby added lines to husband -- a tearaway once! HOTSPUR
Strip off? That woman would SHED
More fierce ladies maybe pop off to board British Rail BLOODIER
Places on board or inside non-stop ferries? directorships
Number one in non-fiction? AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Nick's next-door to vulgar working-class BLUECOLLAR
Mysteriously lust over articles showing dried food SULTANA
Worried if able to rescue vehicle LIFEBOAT