The Telegraph Toughie - Crossword Answers | 2018 03 14

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Garden tool operated noisily first to expose poisonous plant MANDRAKE
Vault helps cure invalid SEPULCHRE
'Essential Jacques Brel' I concede is blast from the past RELIC
VINE FRUIT'S COLOUR ORIGINALLY BETWEEN COPPER AND BROWN CUCUMBER
Film director lacking the least elements of style and charisma isn't an actor anyhow TARANTINO
DAMPER YIELD NOW AND THEN -- IT'S A TIME FOR SHOWERS APRIL
Rotten stand-up could be cleaner DUSTPAN
Firm kiss by lover for keeper of course COXSWAIN
Western wear that sounds like Autry's? JEANS
Ranch in Mayo? SPREAD
Well-heeled in more ways than one? WEDGEDUP
Look in study for stock again RELOAD
Bake tuna pie for yearly visitor PETUNIA
Theatrical assistant that could be Welsh DRESSER
Sign of cold in Gulf state, reportedly CATARRH
Collision narrowly avoided where keen learners congregate? NEARMISS
Hour in post office with bill, big beastly thing where fewer and fewer calls are made PHONEBOX
Sauce made from spun sugar missing the point RAGU
Illegal prospector who risks landing in kangaroo court? CLAIMJUMPER
Part of leg I jerked climbing bringing about change unexpectedly REJIG
Piece on daughter, a right-winger, allowing no alternative MANDATORY
Pinched openings to nostrils affecting sinuses, adenoids, lungs NASAL
Conservative reprobate with universal support backing volatile chamber CARBURETTOR
EGG-LAYER ADDITIONALLY INCORPORATING A SPECIES FROM THE ISLE OF MAN? PLATYPUS
Women's party by North London suburb HENDON
'Rock the Casbah' covers in Skegness? BEACHHATS
With capsized dhow sunk, mystery becomes flat UNIT
Hard work produced by good right back GRAFT
Island where French succeeded in retiring TIMOROUS
Trial prompted by political volte-face in capital PLAGUE