The Telegraph Toughie 2015 10 07 - Crossword Answers

Clue	Answer
Maiden speaker's bound to ramble	TRAMP
Confer about sulphur used in plant	PARSLEY
Poetry initially became prominent -- in place of this?	PROSE
Powder: male is filling five letters	ATOMISE
Respect for predecessors upset two chairpersons	ANCESTORWORSHIP
Witness impatient to see one fellow incarcerated	TESTIFY
Keep standard down	STOCKPILE
Temperance outfit keeping US city upset	DRYNESS
Lots of people running competitons?	RACES
Is filling in -- crikey! -- this?	INCISOR
REQUESTED TO ABANDON AREA, MAKE CONFUSED ESCAPE	SKEDADDLE
Random criticism: shifting space will give warning to other chefs?	POTSHOT
Horrible time for soldier's first retreat	HIDEOUT
Tip last of water into shellfish	WRINKLE
What's not entirely attractive about old flame's excuse?	PRETEXT
Petulant Queen rules capriciously -- involving you having head cut off	QUERULOUS
FUGITIVE COMING FROM CORSICA, IN VIEW OF LOCALS	EXILE
Papers curtailed year after backing half of news investigation	ENQUIRY
Mug -- article brought in to do as tumbler	ACROBAT
Satirical item cut line (something designed for wind-up)	SPOOL
Vault, say -- ours is in disrepair	OSSUARY
Forecaster goes over time with the weather ultimately	TIPSTER
Chapter listed as bowdlerised?	CLEANED
Managed call for help, receiving first of military rescues	RANSOMS
BE LIVID WHEN PROBING DRINK'S SOURCE OF AROMA	PERFUMERY
Line-dancing? Sceptical, with its not being kept up	CONGA
WANT JUDGE TO COME IN TO SUPPORT CLUB	BLACKJACK
That fellow's knocked back moonshine with Scotsman, old story teller	HISTORIAN
Hillman, perhaps, caught with donkey's body	CARCASS
Rudely desires rest with goddesses	THEWEIRDSISTERS

Maiden speaker's bound to ramble

TRAMP

Confer about sulphur used in plant

PARSLEY

Poetry initially became prominent -- in place of this?

PROSE

Powder: male is filling five letters

ATOMISE

Respect for predecessors upset two chairpersons

ANCESTORWORSHIP

Witness impatient to see one fellow incarcerated

TESTIFY