The Telegraph Toughie - Crossword Answers | 2016 05 11

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Follows, protecting king, and makes safe ENSURES
Release bar on Simpson perhaps ditching American husband PUBLISH
CAREFREE CHAP NOT UNKNOWN TO GET WIND UP RILE
KNOCKS UP A BIT OF WOOD SPAR
MESSING UP, LOSES A CONTRACT ESPOUSAL
SEE 1 ACROSS BUTTER
What to say when leaving dog -- advice from Spooner TOODLEPIP
Present mongrel's kennelling charge? CURRENT
CROSS FOUND IN MIDDLE OF WHITEHALL? HETUP
PRAISES BRUSSELS RECORD ON GETTING EUROPEAN INTO SPACE STATION EULOGISES
ATTACK SAS, GOERING ORDERED AGGRESSION
SINGER'S BIG WIN OVERTURNED LINNET
Expressed symbolically, editor's instruction not to write rubbish? NOTATED
Back up car, making vibrating sound PURR
STOCK LINE SLURRED WHEN TIGHT CLOSEKNIT
GLOBAL BODY'S HELP IS NOT REPORTED UNSAID
A new recommendation on wine and snacks ANTIPASTI
Unimpeachable as other clues here are, last one starts with absurd cant SACROSANCT
and 2: Man holding up carton with fish paste PEANUT
Times are changing for the States EMIRATES
Half the kids turned geek NERD
HEEDLESS MEMBERS OF RULING PARTY THROW CAUTION TO THE WIND INSOUCIANT
What you might get after hours is landlord's call -- another drink? TIMEANDAHALF
PERIOD WHEN HEAD OF GOVERNMENT'S IN CONTROL? REIGN
One will join sister on night out, getting overcome by drink? INUNDATE
Women-only therapy involving muscle handling? NOMENCLATURE
A FRENCH FEMALE MADE A JOKE WITHOUT PREPARATION UNEQUIPPED
German denial followed by confirmation after expulsion of eastern assassin NINJA
Northern relatives sounded out -- they're against ANTIS
DIMINISH POSH PERSON WITH INTERRUPTION BY MIMIC TAPEROFF