The Telegraph - Toughie - September 27 2016 Crossword Puzzle Answer

The Telegraph - Toughie Crossword Puzzle Solution - September 27 2016

Clues	Answers
American needs to mix effectively around communal area	STAIRWELL
Beset by pain, I have reduced effect	ACHIEVE
Bureaucrats jail drug dealers	PENPUSHERS
Did see Conservative agitated	CHEATED
Expect a carol singer	AWAIT
Gangster's trendy swallowing hard liquor	ALCOHOL
Girl in song, fruity type	CLEMENTINE
Grassland and what to do with it around end of June taking a day	MEADOW
Identify location	SPOT
Independent outlaws' domain for novelist	ISHERWOOD
Interaction between different communities playing sectarian role	RACERELATIONS
Join one more attractive man from Yale perhaps	CONNECTICUTER
Lover's exotic meals out	SOULMATE
Messes about with flawless cut flower	LARKSPUR

 

Clues	Answers
Old Bill's arrested that means to kill	NOOSE
Old measure introduced by one making delivery, person to produce changes	BELLRINGER
One not out opener for Surrey about to get bowled	SCAB
People honoured by Spain carrying great weight	OBESE
Poet providing humourless study	DRYDEN
Policeman having aversion to American assassin	OFFICER
Possibly made stock car to go faster, if this?	SOUPEDUP
Saxon king left less desirable pieces of meat	OFFAL
Slippery creatures, mostly well-dressed, coming round	EELS
Something of a spectacle in French city	LENS
Star's power running -- in this?	SPORTSWEAR
Top technician arranged drug delivery mechanism	NICOTINEPATCH
Who could deliver potent starlet	TALENTSPOTTER
Worked in kitchen, being past it	WASHEDUP