The Telegraph - Toughie - April 5 2018 Crossword Puzzle Answers

The Telegraph - Toughie Crossword Puzzle Solutions - Apr 5 2018 

Clues	Answers
... arising from affaire, it's ultimately more passionate	LUSTIER
Beaten by scoundrel without once dropping odds	CANED
Break up about love without love	CALVE
Feline ace to finish hard harnessing explosive energy	CHEETAH
Follow logic without principal around university	ENSUE
Force men on ship, half cut	SCREW
Free spare time holding nearly glacial sweetheart	EXTRICATE
French courtesy seeing drunk English in gang	POLITESSE
Ginger beer half knocked back's flat, admits husband	REDHEAD
Grand opening not ending trembling heart	EPICENTRE
Hardline former Tories meet occasionally	EXTREME
Independent's petition for publication	ISSUE
Long story after single call flipping ends	ILIAD
Marine's brutal, taking area with force	SEAFARING
One could be one	PRONOUN
Palace in Italy stripped back, Pope finally managed	LATERAN
Particular potato topping for each, full of beans	CHIPPER
Passion, oddly ardent, getting into hot water ...	MADNESS
Pillage of French land besieging leader from Paris	DESPOIL
Principally masculine sort like this with power? No	MILKSOP
Queen raised under house housing cold staff	SCEPTRE
Sailor back out East quit	ABSCOND
Stout heart receives tug, almost not heartless	CORPULENT
Study period in India ends	TERMINI
Swing door needing oil, we hear	TRAPEZE
Term of endearment? It legitimises embracing	ENTITLE
Total of love-god mounting when touring clubs	SCORE
Untiring church without support when bishop leaves	CEASELESS
Usually least tolerant radical activist initially	ULTRA
Why the woman's iron's returned, corroded outside	WHEREFORE
With a facility consuming globules, small to start	ABSORBENT
Wretched worker takes good advance being promoted	HANGDOG