The Telegraph - Toughie - Jan 7 2016 Crossword Puzzle Answer

The Telegraph - Toughie Crossword Puzzle Solution - Jan 7 2016

Clues	Answers
A fly going up bikini	TANGA
Card player put in virtually double for joker	CLOWN
Contents of cellar Neuburger and Claret -- luckily all for opening?	TABLESALT
Disappear, somehow like gas masks on worried faces	GOWALKIES
Doffing cap, gallant on frequent occasions	NIGHTLY
Elder beyond old, as native American	OSAGE
Free country holding Nationalist officer back	UNLOCK
Gangster, warmer one	SCARFACE
Getting kiss finally, quickie, one's off on a long journey	SPACEMAN
I'm astonished! A shed converted into fruit shop!	HABERDASHERY
In US, a Texas capital, possibly?	AUSTIN
Kill fish then tailless rat	GARROTTE
Long-distance runner cut over peak in Nepal	SEVERN
Man secreting a note, as source for copper	MALACHITE
Maybe I am behind first of lapwings, flock of geese going overhead?	VOWEL

Clues	Answers
One curing heartbreak? Inspiring film song of the Fifties	LOVEMETENDER
Orderly's contract	TRIM
Possibly sleeping in solitude, baby turning over	ABED
Practical joke on jerk	LEGPULL
Rejected role, cross, having to go up a hole leading to the stage	TRAPDOOR
Roman once dropping in by way of the country	LATVIA
Seen before dawn, very rare bird	REDSTART
Serious mark of a French writer?	GRAVE
Show characters around Asian island, as mystic	CABALIST
Sloth, one I cannot fancy	INACTION
Survive hunger, as fit	BELONG
Thirsty, English drink uncorked?	EAGER
Well-groomed tree	SPRUCE
Who's on an unmanned spacecraft keeping dry part of the rocket?	NOSECONE
Wingers for Chelsea ineffectual, lacking goals	CAUSELESS