The Telegraph Toughie - Crossword Answers | 2016 01 07

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Survive hunger, as fit BELONG
Contents of cellar Neuburger and Claret -- luckily all for opening? TABLESALT
SEEN BEFORE DAWN, VERY RARE BIRD REDSTART
WINGERS FOR CHELSEA INEFFECTUAL, LACKING GOALS CAUSELESS
PRACTICAL JOKE ON JERK LEGPULL
Long-distance runner cut over peak in Nepal SEVERN
Who's on an unmanned spacecraft keeping dry part of the rocket? NOSECONE
FREE COUNTRY HOLDING NATIONALIST OFFICER BACK UNLOCK
WELL-GROOMED TREE SPRUCE
THIRSTY, ENGLISH DRINK UNCORKED? EAGER
I'm astonished! A shed converted into fruit shop! HABERDASHERY
Orderly's contract TRIM
In US, a Texas capital, possibly? AUSTIN
Roman once dropping in by way of the country LATVIA
Man secreting a note, as source for copper MALACHITE
Doffing cap, gallant on frequent occasions NIGHTLY
Serious mark of a French writer? GRAVE
Gangster, warmer one SCARFACE
MAYBE I AM BEHIND FIRST OF LAPWINGS, FLOCK OF GEESE GOING OVERHEAD? VOWEL
One curing heartbreak? Inspiring film song of the Fifties LOVEMETENDER
Disappear, somehow like gas masks on worried faces GOWALKIES
Elder beyond old, as native American OSAGE
REJECTED ROLE, CROSS, HAVING TO GO UP A HOLE LEADING TO THE STAGE TRAPDOOR
A FLY GOING UP BIKINI TANGA
Possibly sleeping in solitude, baby turning over ABED
KILL FISH THEN TAILLESS RAT GARROTTE
Card player put in virtually double for joker CLOWN
SHOW CHARACTERS AROUND ASIAN ISLAND, AS MYSTIC CABALIST
GETTING KISS FINALLY, QUICKIE, ONE'S OFF ON A LONG JOURNEY SPACEMAN
Sloth, one I cannot fancy INACTION