The Telegraph Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2023 10 23

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Shrink departs -- con hasn't succeeded DWINDLE
Vegetable, primarily chewy and unpleasant CHARD
Loewe's partner impressing a pupil LEARNER
Part of proposal for developing English city SALFORD
Harshly criticise a bank clerk heard getting cigar PANATELLA
Blot out imperfect pieces, about fifty ECLIPSE
Strain representing church FORCE
Post-Victorian hostilities suppressed by press chief and I, unwisely EDWARDIAN
THREE OF A KIND, TWO OF A KIND, AND A TYPE OF FLUSH PAIRROYAL
Comic, pocketing change, beginning to mimic daydreamer WALTERMITTY
Sign on closet for personal assistants SECRETARIES
Antique found in manor-house in large bag HOLDALL
Recovered and exchanged a series of shots RALLIED
One coming in to join one in army SOLDIER
Unsophisticated, born in humble terrace? LOWBROW
Mischievous troublemaker -- girl men reformed GREMLIN
Theft? Criminal nearly caught breaking in LARCENY
Oldest evergreen on street FIRST
Boring campanologists should get doubles DEADRINGERS
Tackle difficulty leader of Democrats ignored HARNESS
Special rest day, so wandered off STRAYED
German bread taken round end of festival STOLLEN