The Telegraph Toughie - Crossword Answers | 2016 02 12

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Excited since graduation, selecting top 10 per cent? AGOG
Striking police officers holding flower back to front DRAMATIC
DECIDE AGAINST DELIVERIES RIGHT BEFORE YET-TO-START CHRISTMAS SEASON OVERRULE
RUSSIAN MOVIES CUT FOR REDISTRIBUTION MUSCOVITE
KICK OUT THE CAST FOR INTERRUPTING BORING SPEAKER DETHRONE
Once more take up tenant again REOCCUPY
Dam in need of test -- oh dear, it's been regularly neglected MOTHER
Ghastly rogues attacked the setter GRUESOME
English in pub annul disparaging hint INNUENDO
Horrid sort of slip pinched by old dames on vacation? ODIOUS
CARDINAL COMMONLY SEEN IN THE VELVET REVOLUTION FIVE
Shied from personnel stopping urban development THROWN
Passed on stamp duty to begin with DIED
Drink for each in excellent proper round APERITIF
Rubber mistress? MASSEUSE
Reptile in foreign land decapitated when sting is grasped ANACONDA
Save outliers in Renassiance age RECYCLE
Should one get a lighter sentence? ARSONIST
Simultaneously needs resistance to stop defeat in grip of frenzied heathenism INTHESAMEBREATH
First one leaving car around capital after being held up -- one is thinking of you INMEMORIAM
Deviation by expert, penning note to follow late baseball player ABERRANCE
Copper briefly announced farewell SEEYOU
Breeze swirling round empty nave in chapel house EBENEZER
Temporary engineers turned up to cut power in derelict house EPHEMEROUS
One old grasping bore laid back in state IDAHO
PHRASE REPEATED BY SOFT SIREN MANTRAP
Perhaps waffle about kinetic energy CAKE
Sign of approval -- to host retired artist for a long time YEARS
One who doesn't believe in beginning to inspire composer PAGANINI