The Telegraph Toughie - Crossword Answers | 2023 05 24

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Game ended early after Border's returning smears SMIRCHES
Hero, at first hot, abject in ordering assassination HATCHETJOB
Home, about to be supplanted by underworld in contention DISSIDENCE
Iliad rewritten to include western festival DIWALI
Speaker for a Tory's selection ORATOR
Type of horn found in Timbuktu backwater TUBA
Tea, bit of butter all but oblige bread CHAPATTI
Subdues child one's taken on STEPSON
Satisfied tool's procedures METHODS
Vices discovered, confine in cooler ICEBOX
Frequently sanctimonious about universal right HOURLY
Bill steals, according to hearsay, legendary creature PHOENIX
Battle supplies hidden by retreating commander AMMO
Advance made more attractive when little interest is shown? MORTGAGE
Force tense after row DINT
Expression of dismay's no good for women's power STRENGTH
Dry, heated up and ultimately arid DEHYDRATED
Disperse protest, anger spreading around island DEMOBILISE
Choppy brine covers new motorway and one group of fens RENMINBI
Cycling soldiers cut off fools in a group ENMASSE
Come before quiet official, almost give up PRECEDE
Detested sailor scraped around bishop ABHORRED
Critical trap Gerald heartlessly produces GINGERY