The Telegraph Toughie - Crossword Answers | 2017 12 05

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Try, try again to become a marksman CRACKSHOT
Like black joke about waffler GASBAG
A place I will leave, given danger sign ASTERISK
Damn! Bowled tail-ender! BLAST
Pupils can present such a problem OCULAR
Italian resort in the ascendant. I love it. No English TIVOLI
Pulls one in. They're thugs HEAVIES
Island totem's origin shrouded in Native American language CRETE
Fish bite excitedly what I spread outside WHITEBAIT
Turns half of us into idiots TWISTS
Drilling in early stages, having made good progress WELLBEGUN
Dig up huge weed we'd missed GIBE
Second-rate room SPACE
European in good and bad odour GREEK
Attacks sport as 'waste of time' MUGSGAME
Indicates rate of scoring BEATSTIME
Caught in embrace of a sweetheart: hole-in-the-wall affair ALCOVE
WANT NOTHING BUT TO BRING ROUND FROM FAINTING FIT BLACKOUT
Affix a warning in garment PINAFORE
Said they're what we deserve -- for eating our greens? DESSERTS
Horse boxes employed going north. Left nothing to chance MADESURE
Embellish peeved young cockney�s response to 'Pyjamas on. Lights out!' BEDECK
Covers for female -- hates falsifying SHEATHES
'Dance originated with energy,' I interposed BEGUINE
Do they bear a striking resemblance to each other? MATCHES
Is in red, evoking audible exclamations of admiration OWES
Also succeeding. Hard worker HAND
Prominent in support: a big noise LEADING
Understanding doctor? Unknown TREATY
GO CRAZY, HAVING FLIPPED STAB
Comedian playing an abstracted physician MEDICO
SCATTERED AS CONSTABLES TURNED UP SURROUNDING ROBBERY WITH DIAMONDS LIFTED SPORADIC