The Telegraph - Toughie - March 14 2018 Crossword Puzzle Answers

The Telegraph - Toughie Crossword Puzzle Solutions - Mar 14 2018

Clues	Answers
'Essential Jacques Brel' I concede is blast from the past	RELIC
'Rock the Casbah' covers in Skegness?	BEACHHATS
Bake tuna pie for yearly visitor	PETUNIA
Collision narrowly avoided where keen learners congregate?	NEARMISS
Conservative reprobate with universal support backing volatile chamber	CARBURETTOR
Damper yield now and then -- it's a time for showers	APRIL
Egg-layer additionally incorporating a species from the Isle of Man?	PLATYPUS
Film director lacking the least elements of style and charisma isn't an actor anyhow	TARANTINO
Firm kiss by lover for keeper of course	COXSWAIN
Garden tool operated noisily first to expose poisonous plant	MANDRAKE
Hard work produced by good right back	GRAFT
Hour in post office with bill, big beastly thing where fewer and fewer calls are made	PHONEBOX
Illegal prospector who risks landing in kangaroo court?	CLAIMJUMPER
Island where French succeeded in retiring	TIMOROUS
Look in study for stock again	RELOAD
Part of leg I jerked climbing bringing about change unexpectedly	REJIG
Piece on daughter, a right-winger, allowing no alternative	MANDATORY
Pinched openings to nostrils affecting sinuses, adenoids, lungs	NASAL
Ranch in Mayo?	SPREAD
Rotten stand-up could be cleaner	DUSTPAN
Sauce made from spun sugar missing the point	RAGU
Sign of cold in Gulf state, reportedly	CATARRH
Theatrical assistant that could be Welsh	DRESSER
Trial prompted by political volte-face in capital	PLAGUE
Vault helps cure invalid	SEPULCHRE
Vine fruit's colour originally between copper and brown	CUCUMBER
Well-heeled in more ways than one?	WEDGEDUP
Western wear that sounds like Autry's?	JEANS
With capsized dhow sunk, mystery becomes flat	UNIT
Women's party by North London suburb	Hendon