The Telegraph - Cryptic - Jan 18 2016 Crossword Puzzle Answer

The Telegraph - Cryptic Crossword Puzzle Solution - Jan 18 2016

Clues	Answers
A speaker returning brief thanks amid golden words	ORATOR
Cars go for service	MINISTRY
Catch the blame after net is damaged	ENTRAP
Declare in favour of petitioner's cause	PROCLAIM
Device preventing leaves from spreading around	PAPERCLIP
Evocative of not long ago with short skirts being in	REMINISCENT
Expect a hold-up	AWAIT
Flags and sail will need adjusting	AILS
Knowing a monarch should be held in high regard?	AWARE
Length that boxers will go to, to avoid KO?	DISTANCE
Make an introduction here and now	PRESENT
On a charge after disturbance in port	ANCHORAGE
One who can't remember me, as I can recollect	AMNESIAC
Parson crazed with love for a trebly gifted female	SOPRANO
Perfume the French sell with hesitation	LAVENDER

Clues	Answers
Plants for sycophants	CREEPERS
Popular individual is actually present	INPERSON
Predict vocal quartet will go to Ely perhaps	FORESEE
Recess in pleasant hospital	NICHE
Saint George, shocked by such discrimination	SEGREGATION
Space-man yawned	GAPED
Study painting externally, being passionate	ARDENT
Take a look at part of Tuscany	SCAN
Tears shed for Flora	ASTER
Time for breakfast food	PORRIDGE
Time when all assets were frozen?	ICEAGE
Unexpectedly meet resistance -- woman in angry mood	RUNACROSS
Urchin lad wandering in gloom	MUDLARK
Wrong, or sure one is wrong	ERRONEOUS
Yet it provides academic standing	CHAIR