The Telegraph Toughie - Crossword Answers | 2021 05 26

The Telegraph Toughie

crossword answers

Clue	Answer
Respectful of lease always being accepted	REVERENT
Crew leaving show, inevitably	PERFORCE
Failure surprisingly exposing requirements of angler	LURES
Films about European geese	SKEINS
Head of house seen as impartial and safe, somehow	PATERFAMILIAS
Heartless benefactor's opportunity	DOOR
It's turned up in nasty cheap copy	PASTICHE
Answer coming after Laurel's reported lines	STANZA
Laying out previous conclusion about source of pandemic	EXPENDING
One down in feeble defensive construction	PALISADE
Rare quality defining peer	EQUAL
Set out to carry freight -- delicacy from France	ESCARGOT
Rough speed on a road	TEARAWAY
Make last call on way public	STRINGOUT
Content at last, turned round and did some fishing	TROLLED