The Telegraph Toughie - Crossword Answers | 2021 11 09

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Paint box set? COLOURTV
Pierces first of season's fruits SPEARS
Pulls out pages LEAVES
Lust of French ancestor DESIRE
Current Conservative step up for polar area ICECAP
Concerning a contest ABOUT
Make aware of article about vigil AWAKEN
Old-fashioned words treated as a smirch ARCHAISMS
Overfeeds essentially voracious male sheep CRAMS
Some studies say I stressed writer ESSAYIST
Watertight floodgate STAUNCH
To make progress I instigate circling press release IMPROVE
Knock back drink and linger for piece of cake PUSHOVER
I shout aloud for sweet ICECREAM
Celestial events are trickily specialised not requiring potential aid ECLIPSES
Delegates of a vet's enterprise at sixes and sevens REPRESENTATIVES
Behold moggie journalist found LOCATED
Aircraft industry's mishandled privatisation; exotic trips excluded AVIATION
Beatles favourite not long ago YESTERDAY
Ancient kings of Atlantic islands, it's said PHARAOHS
Wrongly set down what is curiously simplest MISSPELT