The Telegraph Toughie - Crossword Answers | 2017 09 05

crossword answers
Clue Answer
One's finished after queen has been grabbed? DRONE
Current is flooding area EXISTENT
What must pose explosive threat? Must not drunken male with glass? MOUNTSTHELENS
Cold wife, lacking firepower going about? UNWARMED
Enthusiasm beginning to recede with time RAGE
Deeply hate nob, horribly unacceptable in behaviour BEYONDTHEPALE
Country uses security device, holding information back SENEGAL
TIMES OF RELAXATION NOT HALF EVIDENT IN SPRING FESTIVAL HOLI
BOY THAT MAKES CHEERFUL SOUND SONNY
Sly act in restaurant perhaps that leaves others to clear up mess FLYTIPPING
I, perfect in speech, may be one to be seen through EYEHOLE
The old man is embraced by a maiden in a movement defying social convention DADAISM
Article really nasty, not the last thing to come under the hammer ANVIL
Story about poet incorporating old material FIBREBOARD
Loveless god, this person has to make strides THRIVE
STRONG WINE TAKEN AFTER WORK'S OVER POTENT
Gym period beset by noise coming from insect DIPTERAN
Man tucked into fish, possible source of energy BIOMASS
Rebuke youngster, learner lacking energy CHIDE
Numbers possibly in reserve BOOK
Soon, your setter's turning up as 'Giovanni'? ANONYM
Nasty looks from bully left surrounded by foreign police SCOWLS
Any number in circle led by a member of tribe once? AMERINDIAN
One sort of organ may get its sound from this EARPHONE
Acerbity of English magistrate missing nothing EDGE
Goes through safe report that's been amended PERFORATES