The Telegraph - Toughie - May 29, 2015 Crossword Puzzle Answer

The Telegraph - Toughie Crossword Puzzle Solution - May 29, 2015

Clues	Answers
A Royal Mail server, powerless as a mail keeper	ARMOURER
Branch of Islam preserving Arabic legal system	SHARIA
Briefly nail floor covering with a hands-on approach	TACTILE
Commission, say, bringing in new generation	ENGAGE
Companion of Buzz A. returning from space?	ALIEN
Computer department replacing line in severe provocation	INCITEMENT
Drink providing legless creature's poison?	SNAKEBITE
Facile revolt is primarily marking support for state	PATRIOTISM
Flog hospital before men suture joint	HORSEWHIP
Gay entertainment -- garbage? Hope rest is funny	THEBEGGARSOPERA
Good letter to stop possible fracking target producing softness underfoot?	SHAGPILE
Hosting goes wrong as soon as it's presented	ONSIGHT
Impatient with lots of exams, perhaps	TESTY
Irritation exercises woman without parents	PEEVE
Maybe little more than an alley cat's cries	MEWS

Clues	Answers
Northern area with king gathering in olden times	YORKSHIRE
Particular area in hazy eclipse	ESPECIAL
Polish or French novelist	SAND
Racket protecting a very contrary slipperiness	EVASION
Reckless drive around centre of Slough	IMPETUOUS
Remains caught when surrounded by some traffic	CARCASS
Rising smoke consuming English poems with many superficial aspects?	GEODESIC
Roughly handsome, not svelte	CHUNKY
Stone pine is enclosed within a small parcel	SACHET
Story the author collected from the South	ITEM
Try a cheap high, with nothing in it for drug supplier	APOTHECARY
Underwear exhibited by several in England	LINEN
What might suggest Doug or Pitt is sweet but easily crumbling	SHORTBREAD
What's burned for power, the last of it taken up chimney	FLUE