The Telegraph - Toughie - December 5 2017 Crossword Puzzle Answers

The Telegraph - Toughie Crossword Puzzle Solutions - Dec 5 2017 

Clues	Answers
'Dance originated with energy,' I interposed	BEGUINE
A place I will leave, given danger sign	ASTERISK
Affix a warning in garment	PINAFORE
Also succeeding. Hard worker	HAND
Attacks sport as 'waste of time'	MUGSGAME
Caught in embrace of a sweetheart: hole-in-the-wall affair	ALCOVE
Comedian playing an abstracted physician	MEDICO
Covers for female -- hates falsifying	SHEATHES
Damn! Bowled tail-ender!	BLAST
Dig up huge weed we'd missed	GIBE
Do they bear a striking resemblance to each other?	MATCHES
Drilling in early stages, having made good progress	WELLBEGUN
Embellish peeved young cockney's response to 'Pyjamas on. Lights out!'	BEDECK
European in good and bad odour	GREEK
Fish bite excitedly what I spread outside	WHITEBAIT
Go crazy, having flipped	STAB
Horse boxes employed going north. Left nothing to chance	MADESURE
Indicates rate of scoring	BEATSTIME
Is in red, evoking audible exclamations of admiration	OWES
Island totem's origin shrouded in Native American language	CRETE
Italian resort in the ascendant. I love it. No English	TIVOLI
Like black joke about waffler	GASBAG
Prominent in support: a big noise	LEADING
Pulls one in. They're thugs	HEAVIES
Pupils can present such a problem	OCULAR
Said they're what we deserve -- for eating our greens?	DESSERTS
Scattered as constables turned up surrounding robbery with diamonds lifted	SPORADIC
Second-rate room	SPACE
Try, try again to become a marksman	CRACKSHOT
Turns half of us into idiots	TWISTS
Understanding doctor? Unknown	TREATY
Want nothing but to bring round from fainting fit	BLACKOUT