The Telegraph Toughie - Crossword Answers | 2023 02 24

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Little European pond-dweller TADPOLE
Maybe bad press is sadly what initiates recrimination and signals fracas SLINGSANDARROWS
Offensive peasant's cutting wood THICKET
Protege perhaps primarily obsessed by a post yet unfilled OXYTONE
Was stooping lower intended to miss end of eaves? DEIGNED
Wallflower's plea to reverse ban? EMBARGO
SEE 11 ACROSS KICK
SEE 12 ACROSS ALIKE
SEE 12 ACROSS MINDS
SEE 12 ACROSS THINK
& 3 Down Attempt to score set off 'smart' guy, seizing crown from Kyrgios GOAL
Like bottom feeders caught in a green uprising OCEANIC
It's impossible to do Conservative parked on single yellow line SQUARETHECIRCLE
Ill at ease, an arty type joins cast ABASHED
SEE 23 ACROSS HOUR
SEE 27 DOWN BEAR
Helpful figures retained by blind ice-skaters INDICES
Help one might have slicing cheese and chocolate cake BROWNIE
Help lifting hotel cases assigned to a Dr Jones INDIANA
Certain users getting woozy inside trailer ASSURED
Bottom of class, repeatedly last in school set, awkwardly wearing dunce's cap for all to see DULLEST
& 13 Across Podium options for London tripper? TUBE
Bone-breakers aboard ship check quartzite? STICKSANDSTONES
& 25 Across Resident in National Park, Four Seasons welcoming turn from Orbison YOGI
SEE 6 DOWN FOOT