The Telegraph Toughie - Crossword Answers | 2015 07 21

crossword answers
Clue Answer
I'M TO TAKE IT SURFACE CICATRIX COULD BE MADE BY WEAPON SCIMITAR
'Mellifluous' clued mistakenly and I missed it DULCET
FOREIGNERS PROSECUTE OTHER FOREIGNERS GRANTED ASYLUM SUDANESE
Flower I do spread out -- it goes round a sunny path ASTEROID
See what's on the other side of pastry? TURNOVER
ROME, FOR INSTANCE, DO BETTER THAN MOST OF ITALY CAPITAL
Make clear it's no song for female vocalist STRESS
Stab guard, half cut TRY
Criticise one for separating players from spectators CASTIGATE
Smoked, having drunk too much LITUP
Cross with one being very much 8? ELEVEN
Very impressive, knocking back booze REGAL
It was yours long before you were born THINE
Umm ... it means 'do wrong' ERR
BE, ON POINT ABOVE, BIASED IN A CERTAIN WAY SEXIST
It was amended before, in a manner of speaking ASITWERE
They scrounge food gathered by locals BEGGARS
Talk of recession -- slump SAG
Excitement when Scamp, outside, takes on cat SPLASH
ABOUT WINDING UP SALE, ARE EAGER AND INGRATIATING PLEASANT
Killer if at all present in the heart FATAL
GETTING RID OF ASSETS -- OR REVEALING THEM! STRIPPING
Father Time, an Irishman? PAT
Uncontrollable water pressure I tried failingly to contain RIPTIDE
Address law that protects businesses ACCOST
Callous lot! CRUELFATE
Someone who'd left and come back for a drink SPIRIT
A file's mentioned in charge ACCUSE
For Lois, Peter ordered profiteroles; and us, some mousse ANAGRAMS
Countdown to blast-off leaving area, not yet having got to one? PRELUNCH
A good hand from a sell-out crowd FULLHOUSE
Bearing the burden is found to be unbearable LOATHED