The Telegraph Toughie - Crossword Answers | 2020 04 07

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Tedious place where offender's taken for battery DRYCELL
Big cheese Father with container served up TOPDOG
Bird circling dock sees crate JALOPY
Bit of a bloomer breaking into grandiose palace SEPAL
Defender sent packing fell flat BACKFIRED
Endless damage to legal term DEFACTO
Famous painting that's current goes up IRISES
Funny shirt DICKY
Gas on in future, cut back XENON
Giant storm almost engulfing tiny vegetable CYCLOPEAN
Pass mark CROSS
Race inspiring a victory call HURRAY
Toast's first, cereal second TRICE
Work out tennis score divided by five hundred DEDUCE
Relief as revolutionary secures victory, help arriving at critical moment? LIFESAVER
Perfume overwhelming initially, Chanel choking pensioner gradually POCOAPOCO
Always at the front, leading others, another nervous soldier advances LOANS
CREATIVE THINKER IS AT CENTRE OF INTERSECTION, DOING A U-TURN EDISON
Use bad, woolly fleece that's rank in the Church SUBDEACON
HOT WINGS IN REFECTORY? RANDY
HOLE IN PINK MATERIAL CORPOREAL
EERIE STORY'S BEGINNINGS IN SONOROUS ECHO RESOUND
HE PAINTED A SCREW, PERHAPS? TURNER
ANYTHING BUT STRAIGHT UP? LYING
CREEP PAST RUBBISH WINGER CHAFFINCH
ALIEN, THAT THING WEARING MASK VISITOR
LIQUID FILLING TANK, VIRTUALLY THERE! VOILA
POSSIBLE SIGN-OFF? BANK CLOSES AFTER THAT SINCERELY
GREAT NUMBER SUPPORTING MERGER? PROFUSION
BOOK TWO, OR 'DEUX' -- SO COMPLICATED? EXODUS
CLEAN MIDDLE EASTERN CITY, FIVE-SEVENTHS OF WHICH BUILT UP VALET
SACK'S CONTENTS IN GRATE WITH A TROPICAL WOOD JACARANDA