January 9 2019 The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 28,943 - Jan 9 2019 Puzzle Clues and Answers

The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 28,943 - Jan 9 2019

Clues	Answers
Angry leaver may sup hot port	LEHAVRE
Bird causing Hemingway perhaps to lose way	ERNE
Bureaucrat will be protected by them -- and a ringleader	MANDARIN
Company staff needed to do auctions on behalf of church	SALESFORCE
Cooked lamb, say, will be awful	ABYSMAL
Did the dishes, exhausted	WASHEDUP
Drake, for example, taking 50 from River Plate, perversely	PRIVATEER
Excellent answer after lifting diamond, say	MEGA
Former morning paper	EXAM
Goodbyes as sexy regularly producing such a journey	ODYSSEY
Looters stumble on the way up, drinking beer	PILLAGERS
Makers of shorts may be quiet during bumpy rides	DISTILLERS
May must accept European sovereignty, being blue	CERULEAN
Nation occupying borders of huge sandy bay	UGANDA
Nude lying in grass must be rejected	REBUFFED

Clues	Answers
Nudes frolicking in a river -- separately	ASUNDER
Ox boxed in by prize bull	ZEBU
Promised to be busy	ENGAGED
Put phone down on copper needing time away	CUTOFF
Service odds good after performing?	EVENSONG
Skill of journalists covering centre of town	PROWESS
Sports people streak excitedly across at last	SKATERS
Stoppage pays for work on the land	STANDSTILL
Sudden influx of popular crowd having missed the start	INRUSH
Understand origin of revolutionary straw material	SEERSUCKER
Upset, cancelled dispatch, ignoring son	OFFEND
Various items from right-wingers on newspaper	SUNDRIES
View offered by soldiers in Hispanic republic	PANORAMA
Weapon's journey north in case of target	TRIDENT
Withdrew accountant involved in new tender	RECANTED