The Telegraph Toughie - Crossword Answers | 2019 11 27

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Spirit being overcome by sin -- it extends over a few years LUSTRUM
VARIATION IN GAME NEEDING CUE NIMROD
Sweep of eras looking back, hard to avoid SCOPE
Quiet trick from one who feels no guilt? PRIG
Rugby success -- one's getting on in this sort of play TRAGEDY
DULL THING TO DISCUSS -- NO CONCLUSION REACHED MATTE
Line of planks in slope at end of street STRAKE
Detective starts to learn some snippets MORSELS
Rail against educationist that's made a mistake BOOBED
Special vessel NASA's newly developed in Land of Opportunity ARKANSAS
Country's beginning to mushroom -- so Scotsman introduced population theory MALTHUSIANISM
Drunks turned up holding up vessels in church STOUPS
A sneer -- this destroyed enthusiasm HEARTINESS
Embarrassed Dickensian character is keeping quiet? The opposite SHEEPISH
French city trip curtailed by unpleasant person TOULOUSE
What's naughty about maiden, maybe being put in reduced circumstances IMPOVERISH
Military officer, post-war planner seen as inadequate MARSHAL
Characters not flustering when losing one legal document LETTERSPATENT
Say in course of story-telling what befalls poor team? RELEGATION
Bottomless foundation? Gosh, it's very big! ROOMY
Suitable food, for non-vegetarian, we hear MEET
Something sweet, additive mostly included in medicine? DEXTROSE
Bird's first need having flown north -- possible site for nest? BLACKTHORN
Tongue as starter for meal in train TAMIL
Whale in two locations near Ibiza ORCA
Wild animal -- a particular continent's rhino EURO