December 12 2018 The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 2,141

The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 2,141 - Dec 12 2018

Clues	Answers
Against writing text for computer and compulsorily listing	Conscripting
Arab offspring is lighting up illicitly	ARSON
Chapter One: Everybody that's backed Sixties singer	CILLA
Chip china potty, swapping half of it for nothing	NACHO
Comic posed with flag above front of theatre	SATIRIST
Good spot to find gold? Not for being dug up when king enters mark on map	FORTKNOX
Grasses progressed up centre of workshop	NARKS
Hollow for burnt stuff is hot in a rain	ASHPIT
Hot stuff from this oil company hosting small thrash	BLOWLAMP
In class a student becomes familiar	INFORMAL
In focus, Tardis is something running the Milky Way?	CUSTARD
Jolly trick: small flask holding six	CONVIVIAL
Knights quitting bar following sanctimonious nut	PISTACHIO
Malign worry follows wally	ASSAIL
Match involving pulling stud has no limits with rough confusion around	TUGOFWAR

Clues	Answers
Purify all, it's idiotic holding it back	DISTIL
Ruin of slum hut causing outbursts	MOUTHFULS
Scoop follows tips of journalist urging politician to abscond	JUMPBAIL
Sierra car belonging to a Middle-Easterner	SAUDI
Simplistic function mostly for army unit	PATROL
Sort out supply around uniform, full of twists	TORTUOUS
Spice Girl losing head is detained by spies	CASSIA
Stalin is too crazy, following India in avoiding political links	ISOLATIONIST
Stop Oscar going from ring	QUIT
Swap parts in vacation, not most brilliant patch	OFFDAY
Top posts on board from family introductions to good sorts	KINGS
Trump folk cooking with tuna	OUTFLANK
Vacant idiocy about folios is risky	IFFY
Van is crossing	TRANSIT
Well in favour of US pay	SPRINGFOR