The Telegraph Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2024 01 08

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Short story about bird's claw TALON
Despicable blokes initially tenanted bottom floor? BASEMENT
Idle type finished around mid-afternoon DRONE
What cover may be doing for novelist FIELDING
Film amazing Thailand win against Italy WITHNAILANDI
Hotel guest let team inside RESIDENT
From bad to worse -- Bertie, perhaps WOOSTER
Tread nervously in business TRADE
Holding cracked tureen TENURE
Some curds, or tofu in a way SORTOF
Staunch supporter rightly depressed TRUEBLUE
American aboard a new train, one coming from Vienna? AUSTRIAN
Love, as it happens, oily fruit OLIVE
Beat female record FLOG
Leader's spoken about current, after current seen rising EDITORIAL
Object of worship in orchidology IDOL
Pick up summary of events? RESUME
Improvise showing ingenuity bottling blended gin WINGIT
Unaware of plain surrounding lake and island OBLIVIOUS
Aplenty, popular digging tools INSPADES
Important stuff MATERIAL
Pigeon in middle of arboretum HOMER