The Telegraph - Toughie Crossword Puzzle Solution - Feb 26, 2015

The Telegraph - Toughie Crossword Puzzle Answer - Feb 26, 2015

Clues	Answers
'Get Back' playing venue unsatisfactory for the audience	RECLAIM
Avoids function key's short cuts	ESCHEWS
Awkward sex holding writer back	INEPT
Bolt's record with victory cry raised	ELOPE
Change published obscenity in unfinished number	TRANSMUTE
Crack and section mad person	SHATTER
Curse comprising last of damn harangues	RANTS
Defeat unbeatable	BEST
Dressing a nude unevenly in pouch facing sweetheart	BANDAGE
Engaged fantastic teacher possessing writing degree	CHARTERED
Fat person, say, rising after dessert	PUDGE
First signs of massive African landlocked independent republic	MALI
Generates energy, loaded?	CREATES
Hard hat's worn by bloke	CHAP
Hospital department admitting stroke's severe	ACUTE
House name, it's missing somewhere in Washington	SEATTLE

Clues	Answers
Liars' rot arranged to hold up tale-tellers	NARRATORS
Match without extra time is tied	EVEN
Properties rented by Switzerland and Austria?	CHALETS
Rating's permit includes ship's canteen, starter to finish	ASSESSMENT
Reckless youth one reared purchasing record by Queen	INDISCREET
Referee ends up in exercise ground	TERRAIN
Roughly knocked back free bitter	ACRID
Rubbish for masses consumed by endless celebrity	FLOTSAM
Secretary turned up with conceivably 'politically correct' skirt	APRON
Single fellows in Tibet, empty following a penance	ATONEMENT
Sombre at heart stifling sigh	BREATHE
Starts to turn hotter after winter season	THAWS
Subject's state's leader ousting Conservative in isolated area	ENSLAVE
Swear with fury sharing round's first par	AVERAGE
Theft follows oddly clownish plot	CONSPIRACY
Womanly bird in weak embrace	EFFEMINATE