The Telegraph Toughie - Crossword Answers | 2020 12 25

crossword answers
Clue Answer
SEE 7 ACROSS MERRY
SEE 7 ACROSS GENTLEMEN
SEE 18 DOWN NOWELL
SEE 14 ACROSS NIGHT
Killer question? WHODUNNIT
Margaret supports 17dn maybe, a spicy item! NUTMEG
Member of clergy is always interrupting break REVEREND
She resides in bachelor actor's retreat CAROL
Swallows -- rising head to tail -- seen in commercials PLUGS
Tense success achieving double ... TWIN
That man is discussed in 17ac HYMN
The setter gets notice -- for sauce? MEAD
Time to plunder pudding? TRIFLE
Groom loiters uneasily: 'I may be jilted' OSTLER
Great he may be, but disposed to be gloomy! DANE
Bet you all need kissing for starters, close to mistletoe? Ecstasy! YANKEE
& 10 Across US taxmen caught in heist -- no issue for 17ac THEFIRST
& 8 Across Len is stupidly tipsy round mid-morning in 17ac SILENT
... chatter among Saints follows! STALKS
14ac could design decoration TINSEL
Funds The Telegraph returned for nutty article CASHEW
'Fragrance' from tramp enveloping Scottish port BAYRUM
& 13 Down, 15 Down 17ac -- mystery or legend? Agreement is uncertain, article being mislaid GODRESTYE
Subject to confusion, having long time sharing party line? ONMESSAGE
Hide in Speaker's bed? LIELOW