The Telegraph Toughie - Crossword Answers | 2018 04 05

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Independent's petition for publication ISSUE
Force men on ship, half cut SCREW
WITH A FACILITY CONSUMING GLOBULES, SMALL TO START ABSORBENT
Beaten by scoundrel without once dropping odds CANED
Passion, oddly ardent, getting into hot water ... MADNESS
Free spare time holding nearly glacial sweetheart EXTRICATE
Particular potato topping for each, full of beans CHIPPER
Total of love-god mounting when touring clubs SCORE
Swing door needing oil, we hear TRAPEZE
Hardline former Tories meet occasionally EXTREME
Study period in India ends TERMINI
Stout heart receives tug, almost not heartless CORPULENT
Sailor back out East quit ABSCOND
Queen raised under house housing cold staff SCEPTRE
Principally masculine sort like this with power? No MILKSOP
Pillage of French land besieging leader from Paris DESPOIL
Marine's brutal, taking area with force SEAFARING
One could be one PRONOUN
Long story after single call flipping ends ILIAD
Grand opening not ending trembling heart EPICENTRE
Ginger beer half knocked back's flat, admits husband REDHEAD
French courtesy seeing drunk English in gang POLITESSE
Term of endearment? It legitimises embracing ENTITLE
Untiring church without support when bishop leaves CEASELESS
Usually least tolerant radical activist initially ULTRA
Break up about love without love CALVE
Wretched worker takes good advance being promoted HANGDOG
Follow logic without principal around university ENSUE
... arising from affaire, it's ultimately more passionate LUSTIER
Palace in Italy stripped back, Pope finally managed LATERAN
Feline ace to finish hard harnessing explosive energy CHEETAH
Why the woman's iron's returned, corroded outside WHEREFORE