The Telegraph Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2023 10 25

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Joyful, old and superior member of an insect colony? EXUBERANT
People who finance banks give bribes BACKHANDERS
Tesco operatives packaging what's put in ice cream SCOOP
Try case of assault, arresting tense worker ATTEMPT
Wrap up in Sweden's capital, and walk unsteadily SWADDLE
What farm birds eat is peanuts CHICKENFEED
Unruly mob's problem accepting new monarch SCRUM
Standard answer for who ruled Britain in AD 1100? NORMANS
This could be used to make fools chatter on stage RHUBARB
Board game piece in drawer DRAUGHTSMAN
Harassed husband hurt after wife disappears HOUNDED
Feeling of ecstasy going? EMOTION
Running away from work wearing silver or gold, say ELOPEMENT
E.g. Scouse or Glaswegian in charge of philosophical debates DIALECTIC
Dotty way of reading books, it's felt? BRAILLE
Doctor article newspaper journalist sketched out DRAFTED
Divided Conservative and Labour? CLEFT
Disheartened Ant or Dec changing style ARTDECO
Adult leaving El Dorado loaded showed great pleasure DROOLED
Complaint of diner having, say, sipped rum DYSPEPSIA
Ale is repeatedly drunk in predominantly Polish region SILESIA
Admire Rashford's header playing United MARRIED