The Telegraph Toughie - Crossword Answers | 2020 10 09

crossword answers
Clue Answer
& 18 Across Reason for securing airfields? LANDING
& 19 Down Exchange online giants Massenet, Brahms & Liszt? INSTANT
Between five and 50, this palm would be essential ITA
Some uttered an expression of relief AFEW
Some relief from the rants of Mad John Bull? ENGRAVINGS
See fencing exercise scratching face? It shouldn't EPEE
Scandinavian heptad, now deserted by leader of eight SVEN
With regular saves on field, no goals NIL
You'll see this man, initially cornered in board meeting, rip off flier ROOK
Returning student doctor not entirely the same IDEM
Naked logic exploited failing -- Kirk didn't see adversaries using it CLOAKINGDEVICE
Monster really will sacrifice wings to be human ERR
German river leading, in essence, to Cologne, do we hear? ODER
Quirk of taxing Formula One scrap, keeping heat right up FISCALDRAG
Crude hire covers University of Little Enlightenment RUDIMENTAL
City Bank failing to appoint head of RBC ELY
Perhaps Idomeneo and Flavio hope to undress before Overture to Swan Lake OPERESERIE
Order of Mammalia yielding religious figure (not lama) IMAM
'Our Father Time/Who art a weather vane/Hallowed be thy ground ...'? THELORDSPRAYER
A lax body -- most common in mums -- during surgery, finally tucked up? ABDOMINOPLASTY
Advice about border wind up southern range THEMENDIPS
Anthropophagic, it's a wild and wicked beast TASMANIANDEVIL
Volume: a pretty tiny novel within a novel VANITYFAIR
No alfresco party to ruin! DOIN
Express delivery part of its service? PAPERROUND
The writer's prudish, having exposed adult book licence IMPRIMATUR
SEE 17 ACROSS GROUNDS
SEE 4 DOWN MESSAGE