The Telegraph Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2024 02 05

crossword answers
Clue Answer
New rope I ordered to hold large overhead cable, perhaps POWERLINE
Paul, grandmaster, some risk-taker, Estonian KERES
Problem affecting services? TENNISELBOW
Fish bones across middle of jetty STURGEON
Expert touring city in desert DEFECT
Really popular outcome INEFFECT
ROUGH ROUTE, REPORTEDLY COARSE
Bright in initially crowded bar CLEVER
Sleeveless garment -- team's leader is after one SINGLET
Stubborn stain to be treated OBSTINATE
Straighten out former nurse EXTEND
Like appeals close to umpire PLEASE
TAKE IN SYNOPSIS DIGEST
Spooner's a lot more complex? Crazy HAYWIRE
£25, say, for mail service long ago PONYEXPRESS
Temperature fine for Hungarian wine TOKAY
Still time to produce result EVENT
Loyalty programme? Form of realism I injected AIRMILES
I trust an eccentric, one espousing nudity NATURIST
Detectives essentially separate DISPERSE
Currer, Ellis & Acton's record? THETHREEBELLS
Assistance provided by government -- its data broadcast about energy STATEAID