The Telegraph - Cryptic - October 25 2017 Crossword Puzzle Answers

The Telegraph - Cryptic Crossword Puzzle Solutions - Oct 25 2017 

Clues	Answers
Adopt mainly dull and nice changes	INCLUDE
Calls and records a sale	RINGSUP
Count Basie perhaps vetoed broadcast, needing editor's opinion	BANDLEADER
Crush fly	DASH
Draught beer's top for this idiot	AIRHEAD
Entertainer who was bound to show unconfined relief	HOUDINI
Extend stage to include end of apron afterwards	LENGTHEN
Flier confined by ambassador to land	ORTOLAN
Former king with a line on the side	LATERAL
Friend from Spain making a motorway turn	AMIGO
Head of government permits spirits, showing such wit	GALLOWSHUMOUR
Independent female protected by friendly source of power	WINDFARM
Located audit set for revision	SITUATED
Mass with moral sets off destructive situations	MAELSTROMS

 

Clues	Answers
Observer in privy meeting with broker, half cut	ONLOOKER
One cuts copies up in colour	SEPIA
Pity, for the most part, is pretence	SHAM
Prison involved in raising of merit systems	STIR
Put on new clothes with fashionable source and did a turn?	CHANGEDCOURSE
Remain absorbed by tatty rug that's not as attractive	UGLIER
Set up as prisoner and judged	CONFIGURED
Shape a student in accordance with convention	FORMAL
Shifty last retailer picked up tableware item	SALTCELLAR
Softens, finding the French trapped in leases	RELENTS
Speakers supporting company dance set up as partners in crime	COLLABORATORS
Traditionalists sign after performance by soldiers	REACTIONARIES
Weep, hugging Liberal -- a slovenly type	SLOB
Wrong in law to accept soldiers suffering	TORMENT