The Telegraph Toughie - Crossword Answers | 2023 04 12

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Lying open, one undergoing treatment has heart removed PATENT
Lively chap I wed loses head ANIMATED
Italian food adopts right note for sliced meat PASTRAMI
One example of tree twine, we hear UNIT
Runner in drama to stir cast ADMINISTRATOR
Sails, getting success in fish WHITINGS
Square up a record involving literary outsiders PLAZA
Sunk empty bottles -- not smart UNKEMPT
Warm to her, poor lowly creature EARTHWORM
Union's backstop is two powers blocking a French queen's return PRENUP
Unconventional Western celebrity lout takes Independent BOHEMIAN
CROW'S NEST? TEPEE
Insult a fine compere AFFRONT
I have found Californian city! EUREKA
How a stupid eccentric, denied papers, becomes lefty SOUTHPAW
Gorges along east flanks of airport start to sink OVEREATS
Gangster crosses street for finishing touch CAPSTONE
Food adds a stone in some Asian countries FAREAST
Female abandoning Western country OMAN
Cheaper brand of champagne I once knocked back no good in retirement TATTIER
Boorish decline to enter work PLEBBY
Centres in Peking, Bulgaria and Polish capital KIGALI
Brown barrel Bill sent back WALNUT