The Telegraph - Cryptic - September 19 2017 Crossword Puzzle Answers

The Telegraph - Cryptic Crossword Solutions - Sep 19 2017 

Clues	Answers
Accept what chess player might do	TAKEONBOARD
Boring article in French by Dane, possibly	LEADEN
Citadel deployed specific form of language	DIALECT
Clue: regularly pilfer small drinks	TIPPLES
Cocktail dance, led by son today	SNOWBALL
Colour making animal go mad	MAGNOLIA
Company abandons helpful worker	OPERATIVE
Continue exercise with runs getting tough	PERSEVERE
Cut when working	HEWN
Doctor bears arms -- shame!	EMBARRASS
Exploited sailor took drugs	ABUSED
Fate that's more peaceful, reportedly	KARMA
Fawn is more natural when passing over fifty	SIMPER
Fear mad admiral is impeding fleet	ARMADA
House in Russia, definitely with a supporting church	DACHA

 

Clues	Answers
Last of bitumen or silt damaged air-intake	NOSTRIL
Most important, as she is to Bolshevik?	CENTRAL
On dress, perfume is evocative	REMINISCENT
One holy with rage holds king to be outsider	STRANGER
One that buzzes around picking stuff up following complaint	BEEF
Opening's curiously premature, losing millions	APERTURE
Pub profits -- selling these?	BARGAINS
Put up with papers penned by president	ABIDE
Queen succeeds by keeping posh and one's stocking up	BUYER
Self-determination, a service offered by generous solicitors?	FREEWILL
Start to make trouble over space in sorting office	MAILROOM
Tea in group of hotels?	CHAIN
Tot at lights out in old-fashioned bed wear	NIGHTCAP
Wet and bright? Not at first	RAINY
Work too hard crossing river, right?	OVEREXERT