The Telegraph Toughie - Crossword Answers | 2020 01 23

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Shoe uppers a botcher's 'helping' to make SABOT
ONE MIDDLE-SIZED CHARACTER'S AFTER LEADS IN 'PICKWICK' AND 'HAMILTON' -- MUG! PHIZ
Out of control before twelve -- given fine AMOK
Penny's absorbing book: 'Seasons' PRESERVES
Perhaps spin for a bit, and impress greatly? BOWLOVER
Resigned from Saint Osyth's -- originally in charge STOIC
Shining land ALIGHT
Throw a Parisian laid by rocky shore UNHORSE
Unknown leaves from freezer spiced up joint REEFER
Not so many sheep in France FEWER
Include Aussie oaf in one's farce MOCKERY
16 predicaments JAMS
Acquire said crock? EARN
Believe in cure ultimately following surgery OPINE
Bet from elder, say, bringing in 'barrel' TREBLE
Cuisine from Ontario failing to engage daughter TANDOORI
Deleting act from Magna Carta involved reordering ... ANAGRAM
Handyman exposes truth over corporation FACTOTUM
Invention about left Wooster short; big bet coming unstuck -- fool! FLIBBERTIGIBBET
Figure tea shops empty -- the setter beginning to salivate CHASSIS
Acute observation from Kelvin hereunder, regularly associated with you KEENEYE
... secreting file within intricate inner base ENDOCRINE
Old cart traps mater uncomfortably in conduit WATERMAIN
Reshuffle for chief in cabinet CHIFFONIER
Prominent feature of Norman hose, not hard to fashion ROMANNOSE
Prize ram generates new business STARTUP
Conductors head off social climbers? USHERS
Stay frenziedly ingesting drug, getting purple AMETHYST
Customary solids offering flavoursome ingredients STOCKCUBES