The Telegraph Toughie - Crossword Answers | 2022 07 21

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Normal bargain for root vegetable PARSNIP
Prank caught by a tourist worker in turn CAPER
Provisional line essentially followed by first person in style INTERIM
Radical dictators take to posturing DRASTIC
Rarefied ground or site retained by English clubs ESOTERIC
Section of network's muting mildly offensive comments SMUT
Show more dishonesty adopting new statement lacking details OUTLINE
Study audition of hell-raising actor READ
Military hero leads to lively celebrations in festival ELCID
Medical officer in hearing given to making cracks? WITTY
Large-scale Eastern film EPIC
Kiwi dancer shortly in charge gets abdominal pain COLIC
Inventive sort taking round at home ordinary stuff MARCONI
Heroines oddly ignored for long periods EONS
Haggard female in family after end to partying GAUNT
Gloss over one-time trading association, reportedly GILD
Get too old for romantic meeting DATE
Figure left after period linked to fossil fuel? NUMERAL
Favour element disowning Republican BOON
Consider minutes taken in abandoned building at rear of office RUMINATE
City director firstly entertained by, maybe, a natural raconteur's device ANECDOTE
Casually agreed about eating crusts of overgrown bloomer PEONY
A wee pun again devised to encapsulate timeless place in country PAPUANEWGUINEA
Familiar airs unsettled saturnine guest SIGNATURETUNES