The Telegraph - Toughie - June 7 2017 Crossword Puzzle Answers

The Telegraph - Toughie Crossword Puzzle Solutions - Jun 7 2017 

Clues	Answers
A model written up for old storyteller	AESOP
Absolutely above censure, giving little away	DEADPAN
Country doctor exposed hardliner	IRELAND
Creature is among rocks around river	ORGANISM
Discharge in space, they say?	RHEUM
Dubious poem fairly vacuous	IFFY
Fabrication that's fibrous	YARN
Face bristle standing	MEET
Fine journey beyond a US city	CHICAGO
Former officer with energy set off	EXPLODE
Hunger cut by 20 per cent by northern politician	GREEN
In recession, US city not of sound character	TONAL
It's suggested the phone remained silent for primate	ORANG
Jam lids lifted	SPOT
Lean cut in box	SPAR
Old female ruler in old Chinese port	NANKING

 

Clues	Answers
Out-of-this-world effect as snooker player breaks off, potting first of five	REDSHIFT
Perfect, time and time again	MINT
Quick to communicate	EXPRESS
Rapid winds into which hollow tree flies	DIPTERA
Recognise there's little time to lose before democratic reforms	ACCREDIT
Regretted being churlish, by the sound of it?	RUED
Relative carrying on with family member, a brother primarily amoral	UNCONSCIONABLE
Rock cladding walls for unheated house	TUDOR
Sandy has nothing on, the clown!	BUFFOON
Source of illusions is wonderful and grows rapidly	MAGICMUSHROOMS
Turner losing head, contemptible type	HEEL
Ultra-masculine Scot, sexy before scratching bottom?	MACHO
US Civil War general's captivated by exciting piece of papal regalia	FISHERMANSRING
Weak tie	DICKY
Yellow bird, as it happens, another colour	CHICKENLIVERED
Yes, with great efficiency?	VERYWELL