The Telegraph - Cryptic - October 5 2016 Crossword Puzzle Answer

The Telegraph - Cryptic Crossword Puzzle Solution - October 5 2016

Clues	Answers
Animal trap designed to hold one	TAPIR
Butter up easily hurt cleaner	SOFTSOAP
Current group of pupils split by ability	STREAM
Custom in mounting Pegasus	USAGE
Cut short attempt to be of help to Labour	TRAVAIL
Dark flower cut for such hats	SOMBREROS
Did nothing, but lied about pinching diamonds	IDLED
Do puzzle, heading off for daughter	DIDDLE
Earth summits on fuel	TOPSOIL
Eradicating right to go relaxing	EASING
Fungal infection of right-winger backed by doctor	DRYROT
Handy people for getting the message across?	SIGNERS
Highly skilled, but with no power to wield	EXERT
How party without women sadly becomes degenerate	ATROPHY

 

Clues	Answers
Identifies spot occupying listeners	EARMARKS
Intended to welcome new money	FINANCE
Muggy day clinched the sale?	CLOSED
Music genre of Scot perhaps seen on American Dad	BRITPOP
Person easily convinced to hang around after knocking back drink	PUSHOVER
Refusal to acknowledge sweeper out of form	BRUSHOFF
Salutes quality in a drop of the hard stuff?	HAILSTONE
Suffering parental pariah has no time for such trappings	PARAPHERNALIA
Taken to court about smear and suffered	SUSTAINED
The girl with new hat gets a cocktail dress	SHEATH
Type of purchase made by brotherhood, one hears	MAILORDER
Undue rushing from rain, perhaps	PRECIPITATION
Unease rose, yet sent back to take in sights	EYESORES
Weight of a vast rig at sea?	GRAVITAS