The Telegraph Toughie - Crossword Answers | 2018 08 16

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Look slightly hurt, usually following trivial insult initially SHUFTI
Fish about to return around River Plate TRENCHER
Process delicious food, some say MANNER
Ghostly ship appears after 'Blood' yielded, oddly BODILESS
Very French, revolting in fact, showing neglect DESERTED
Unavoidably detained by worshipper for celebration PERFORCE
TV show, terribly masculine, covering sex clubs SITCOM
Stands? It's hard in wellingtons, possibly BOOTHS
Surface, say, engineers turned over EMERGE
Some sprint on in game, repeating mantra? INTONING
Some batted in pairs and left with trophy LASHES
Set up sweetheart following accident pinching bottom PREARRANGE
Screeching tail of Polaris missile STRIDENT
Brings missing female and eats in ETCHES
Aristocrat tipped domestic welcoming his unlimited friendliness BONHOMIE
Army enlisting only regulars may train aide MYRIAD
American prisons in Seattle emptied creating tension SUSPENSE
Abstinent stand above nearly everyone swallowing dram TEETOTAL
Loud new look over time catches up STENTORIAN
Let off former wife, single, half-heartedly betrayed EXONERATED
Join bishops perhaps after church time CEMENT
The old old bloke really eviscerated militia YEOMANRY
Bitter man not gutted about romance being rejected MALEVOLENT
Put on some jeans wearing sort of shirt TELEVISE
Article survives containing Holmes's last monograph THESIS
Pierce middle of blockages blocking drain SKEWER
One is found inside vacant lavatory TOILET
Musical piece plump diva finally accepts before tenor OPERETTA