January 4 2019 The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 2,154 - Jan 4 2019

The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 2,154 - Jan 4 2019

Clues	Answers
About time the best should stop efforts to see horny old beasts	Triceratopses
American force in tatters, so rope deployed	STATETROOPERS
Assistant nurse's last to enter hospital chapel site in turn	HELPMEET
Bang on 24, for example	REPORT
Buffoon in contact with six-footer having correspondence	ASSONANT
Children's writer rebuffed the northern Norwegian one	NESBIT
Copper part of turret's erratically rotating	ARRESTER
Erstwhile home of Biggs and Orbison, off and on	RIO
Female on farm following zigzag path?	EWE
Fury of possibly bitter chief technical officer	ALECTO
Hardly anyone said that's a relief	FEW
Having rooms on the house torn away?	RENTFREE
Impede recall of alkalinity measurement involving caustic soda ingredient	HANDICAP
Jellied preparations like shots	ASPICS

Clues	Answers
Letter from company offering connections to the north	PSI
Loaf a bit, dancing with a cat	CIABATTA
Old fool and minister climbing, not having the head for it?	VERTIGO
Perhaps a smoker's mellow, obscuring end of bloody horror film	CARRIAGE
Recorded over silence with one bar level topping another	TSHAPED
Republican nobody introduces lunchtime mischief in DC	NOONER
Salt, maybe an inhabitant of the ocean?	SEASON
Sir, maths needs revising pronto	SMARTISH
Sister almost comprehending Spanish is a great musician	MAESTRO
Stone cask over ground, it's used by bakers	NUTMEG
Storey remodelled by secretive person	OYSTER
Touch suspicious, not seeing any resistance to win, or nearly	EACHWAY
Unusual development in intro to tune by Muse, English rock band	TERATOGENESIS
What's moved passes time on clock, with First Lady keeping Mohammed's wife inside	THEAYESHAVEIT