The Telegraph Toughie 2018 03 08 - Crossword Answers

Clue	Answer
POSITION THAT APPLIES TO ACROSS CLUE AFTER 90-DEGREE ROTATION?	BACKSTOP
German joiner's identity annulled	UNDID
Book into space ship and board	EMBARK
What bowler might use hits target at 16	TOPSPIN
Looks at Express, say, or issue of Observer	EYESTRAIN
Sends message beforehand, perhaps, to give excuses	PRETEXTS
Express frustration about rotten leek, having thrown away last vegetable	CELERY
Divert coach back into underpass	SUBWAY
Is coaching at first to box	TEACHEST
Resist Old Pretender's initial claim	OPPOSE
One replacing character, perhaps to avoid offending star	ASTERISK
This bean's distilled into alcohol	ABSINTHE
One hatching plots against P Pan?	CHOOK
Spin, following Sun's lead? A body that does	SATURN
Throaty -- sounds like it might be to do with drainage?	GUTTURAL
IT MAY BE MORE DIFFICULT FOR LONDONERS TO EXPRESS WARMTH	ARDOUR
Draw fleet out as vessels coming from Holland	DELFTWARE
Graceful, shy elk with lip trembling	SYLPHLIKE
Cut off paisley pants making old-fashioned sight	ESPIAL
Fellows standing in for you and me in holiday month maybe make more	AUGMENT
Drink in kitchen, where you may hear a pin drop	BOWLINGALLEY
Kids' coverage influenced broadcast	SUEDE
Head of Research taken on by Auntie Eleanor's drink corporation?	BEERBELLY
Decorative work the creation of lipstick-wearing drinker?	STAINEDGLASS
Location of card game vulnerable to robbery	LOOTABLE
Extremists in Twitter dying to be this?	TRENDING
One cutting words once on poster for Paris concert by Sonny?	ETCHER
Stylish artist regularly appearing with a couple of unknowns	RITZY

POSITION THAT APPLIES TO ACROSS CLUE AFTER 90-DEGREE ROTATION?

BACKSTOP

German joiner's identity annulled

UNDID

Book into space ship and board

EMBARK

What bowler might use hits target at 16

TOPSPIN

Looks at Express, say, or issue of Observer

EYESTRAIN

Sends message beforehand, perhaps, to give excuses

PRETEXTS