The Telegraph Toughie - Crossword Answers | 2017 08 24

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Sugar-coat reports circulating about alien base SWEETEN
Go to check king's ready PREP
The setter's leaving nothing of importance working OPERATIVE
Performing song with this religious leader could be absorbing RABBI
Evil alter ego contracted artist ... monster! HYDRA
STRANGER DIED IN EUROPEAN RIVER ODDER
Holding up trophies, substitute's where coach might be BUSSTOP
Priest sets out to find relative STEPSISTER
Traitor's doing well with Queen INFORMER
CAUSE EMBARRASSMENT TO PARTY THAT'S AFTER ANSWER ABASH
Retailer sells hopeless clothes SHOP
Siren in temple curtailed exercise PARTHENOPE
Employ most of dinosaurs in retirement EXERT
Unusual gear? Just three-quarters of it DIFFERENT
Duck crackers DAFFY
Incompetent being this would make fuse start to fail USELESS
One's one to have one on the Walk of Fame STAR
One acts like eight or nine of French Resistance PRETENDER
STUFFED ON ACCOUNT OF AGENT OVERFED
Need discovered French author to be bright LUSTROUS
American airport terminal's beginning to be most boring DULLEST
British remain in port BREST
Lift articulated beams RAYS
UNIVERSAL BAR SUITS REGULARLY GETTING PROMOTED OVER FAST AND FURIOUS TURBULENT
Not working having left monastery OUTOFORDER
Salesperson with additional pay for extra performance REPRISE
Very fine hour with fliers HAIRLINE
Progress to pull a good pint GETAHEAD
Use just over half of gas etc supplied by London area UTILISE
Religious leader in huff about being elevated PETER
Well-to-do duke, American PROSPEROUS
Disappointing holiday, a possible result of taking drugs? BADTRIP