The Telegraph Toughie - Crossword Answers | 2018 03 08

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