December 5 2018 The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 2,137

The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 2,137 - Dec 5 2018

Clues	Answers
Almost broke cover	SKIN
Back by midnight? That's very curious!	AGOG
Before working hours, find time to make time?	FOURTHDIMENSION
Call informers about potential lead	STARLET
Doctor straddling old exercise bike	MOPED
Dread, thus considered, that can't be handled?	UNNAMEABLE
Having shortened text, depart peculiar vocabulary	LINGO
I'm in as Con, corrupt, having no cause for alarm?	INSOMNIAC
Iron Lady displays top fashion	FEDORA
Job description?	PATIENT
Last month, university student overturned skip	ULTIMO
Novelist showing briefly conflicting political positions	CONRAD
One concluding art with no merit should be scrapped	TERMINATOR
One tells stories, but fails to move	FABULIST
Outline from an unintelligent judge	ADUMBRATE

Clues	Answers
Outside of Tours, a friend there gives wave	TSUNAMI
Process that confuses millions invested in capital part	RIGMAROLE
Proper woman retiring as governess	DUENNA
Regret very much in hearing influential thinker	ROUSSEAU
Round container Popeye ultimately dropped in sea	OCEAN
See impact that's explosive in continuum	SPACETIME
She might be found in India, applied to feeding minor	LIONESS
Sound from kitchen aboard ship	GALLEON
Spot youngster spinning cloth	BUCKRAM
Swiss town stables unbelievable horse	STALLION
Tramp lodged in waste-pipe	STEP
Try to quit search on Net producing lustful gaze	OGLE
Unseemly and annoying child catcher?	IMPROPER
Where one sees stem and large stalk	PROWL