The Telegraph Toughie - Crossword Answers | 2023 03 09

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Drives up taking primarily tarmacked roads STREETS
English sailor welcoming help over beam RADIATE
Free former partner married on merit EXONERATE
Greek god angry being rejected EROS
Label when company produces sauce TABASCO
Occasionally spurned girl making proposition PREMISS
Setting of gold part encircling box ORCHESTRATION
See record business in a rush EPISCOPATE
Round container boxes before binge OVEREAT
Ordinary container holding couple's old hat OUTWORN
Dexterous, exhibiting fine touch initially DEFT
Elaborate couturier back in glowing form EMBROIDER
Cutting line in a hospital department ASTRINGENT
Damn solution absorbing solver's head CURSE
Comparatively mature tree ELDER
Chilli chicken containing some fruit LICHI
Chatter about revolting sad Oscar broadcast PROMULGATE
Cold's terrible gripping senior citizen OLDSTER
Crippling game debt guarantees new charges RUINOUS
Copper's carrying very strong manacles CUFFS
Caught, embarrassed, facing sex's attributes CREDITS
Astronomer's accepted alien one makes up COSMETOLOGIST
Stroked soft fabric FELT