The Telegraph - Cryptic - Feb 16 2018 Crossword Puzzle Answers

The Telegraph - Cryptic - Feb 16 2018  

Clues	Answers
Advocates of one-party state overthrown in a riot at last	TOTALITARIANS
Bill joins union stars -- they may examine business statistics	ACTUARIES
Controls costs, following method	MODERATES
Cross province heading west, protected from the elements somehow?	INDOOR
Dangerously smooth Bond type full of impudent talk	SLIPPY
Dealing with consumption, try not finishing initially	TREATING
Firm admits an offence -- risks may be taken with money here	CASINO
Food providing energy after journey	TRIPE
French art, exceptionally erotic and mysterious	ESOTERIC
Girl reading having leg pulled? That's cruel	RUTHLESS
Good number in front of this person in small statue	GNOME
I am maiden protected by being in fruit tree	PERSIMMON
I had to catch the sun, put on a desert island?	ISOLATE
Little living things Georgia found in beer	ALGAE
Live satisfactorily by edge of wood	DWELL
Lover is a wet, admitting fear ultimately	AMORIST
Most likely to inherit everything?	MEEKEST
Odd impostor tends to be following a sort of artistic style	POSTMODERNIST
Old contrary female meets copper beside street as usual	CUSTOMARY
Person making repair grabs a thread	MEANDER
Presumably not the way a woman speaks a curse	MALEDICTION
Sellers of goods given dull jobs outside ace institution	CHAINSTORES
Something cutting -- it is evident in racism sadly	SCIMITAR
Stopped being cold, and slowed down	CEASED
The answer your setter has chosen? Gosh!	MYWORD
The old man going one way and another -- torn apart, that's obvious	APPARENT
Vessel in the morning crashing into bridge	SAMPAN
Wicked type perched and troubled saint	SATANIST