The Telegraph Toughie - Crossword Answers | 2019 06 18

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Following left-winger it's hard to show old-fashioned faith TROTH
A sailor's heard in criminal acts ASSAULTS
I must follow obvious suggestion OVERTONE
Wine transported to merchant MONTRACHET
Curtailed welcome by relative? Anything but a welcoming word! AVAUNT
Confused Homer, apt sadly to make literary blunder MIXEDMETAPHOR
More spirited female is starting row, putting male off FEISTIER
Devious when there's little support within firm STEELY
Fish in ditch after river's drained TENCH
Port taking five hundred and six deliveries? DOVER
Bill quickly embracing Maureen by railway PROMONTORY
Making the most of wise words, I celebrate MAXIMISING
Switzerland is so preserved, against joining in? CANTONED
AMERICA FACING NEW EXTREMES OF CLIMATE -- PERIOD OF RECKONING USANCE
My sailor is one who hunted whales AHAB
Governor's office in state that's absorbed region to the west SATRAPY
Who'd caress son struggling to reveal personal plans? SHOWONESCARDS
Ghost shortly returning after party and things we cannot name DOODAHS
Hotel in very very cold French city VICHY
Heartless workers' group set up -- not liked by the toffs NONU
Copper's beginning to advance in energetic case ACCUSATIVE
Land suffering from arson attack? ALIGHT
Worker taken on by king, not a good person for Rex? HANDLER
Fat should be reduced slightly -- get fruit PLUM
Shaft of tool held together by end of nail AXLE
Being led astray in fog, is calmer than all the others MILDEST