The Telegraph Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2024 01 08

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