The Telegraph Toughie - Crossword Answers | 2019 10 25

crossword answers
Clue Answer
TO BRANDISH WEAPON UNCOMFORTABLY NEAR SURRENDERING ROMEO COULD BE THIS? SHAKESPEAREAN
ELITE NAZIS CONTROLLING CHIEF BATTLE ZONE DESERTED BY A YOUNG ASTRONOMER SCHWARZSCHILD
A hundred up north confined with one during festival WAPENTAKE
Escape Manx lion some call Georgia LEAKAGE
TOWN GETS ME KINDRED SPIRIT, OUT OF THREE AND A BIT TIDDLY KIDDERMINSTER
Describing John Dryden, maybe, critical notes given free COMPLIMENTARY
Freely acknowledge at the outset offer of money will secure left back ADLIB
GP's unknown 14 DRY
Instant 16 SEC
Irreligious basics for preparing roast chicken? HEATHEN
Is this reversed by chap in pub? REHAB
Manage a single trip RUN
One cleaning up extra oxygen to make new order REGROUP
Plant more nuts MADDER
Second assessment, say? REMARK
Southern surfing lines? SONNET
To impress husband, I adapt spicy Asian dish PADTHAI
Co-ordinator ordered garrison to arrest enemy's No. 1 ORGANISER
Venomous reptilian male graduates going head to head MAMBA
Alert, M flees island during rise of 007's foe ONGUARD
Angry repeatedly at halls which one might have liked ASALLTHAT
Assistants, by the way, turning my lovely dress down CARPET
Authenticate alien pass TICKET
Will a rising lunch of piri-piri, couscous and pawpaw do this? REPEAT
STRAIGHT LINE THAT RUNS FROM ELBOW TO WRIST RADIUS
Oil spills over awful dark red clothes show DRKILDARE
Note held by Puccini but not Vivaldi and Purcell but not Britten? MIDDLEC
He boxed precious metal for collection by Mr Elgar MAGRI
Call me this in novel, not Clint ISHMAEL
British Film Week establishes screens KES
Begin to think about hobbit GOLLUM
500 pairs pass back into apt vessel's hold ARMLOCK