The Telegraph - TOUGHIE - January 3 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solution

The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 2,361 - Jan 3 2020  

Clues	Answers
After two drinks, this setter's game!	GINRUMMY
American escaping from even church's grasp	CLENCH
Angle to capture heart of pretty thing	FETISH
Approach female upstart right away after taking the lead	AVENUE
Borders on having succeeded after one month	APRONS
Carelessly concedes kick on wing where props go in	SCENEDOCK
Commander capturing men having routed threat on southern peaks	CORBETTS
Compact, tense-free language	ERSE
Dad stopping adult function after student drinks	ALCOPOPS
Daily points from all sides apparently taken literally	NEWSPAPER
East End intellectuals reported some of their Boat Race?	EYEBROWS
Endless pressure to go on pitch -- captain may land you here	HEATHROW
Fruit seed radius	PEAR
Gesture when in male corner	COCKASNOOK
Girl eating peeled vegetable elicits comment in writing	ANNOTATE
Heading off anguish, time running out for complaint	EARACHE
Heartless guy about to take the lead? Not Frank!	CAGY
Intriguing topic is absorbing Left	POLITICS
It's okay, not odd, to follow broadcast of knockout Big Bang episode?	KRAKATOA
Middle-of-the-road guide to late-night events?	CATSEYE
Regularly expose busybody making money	PESO
Repeatedly anger bishop about a problem overseas	BERIBERI
Singer from off-and-on screen embraced by performer	ACCENTOR
Some mess I spill, ending up ...	ELLIPSIS
Split from extremely clever First Lady hiding fool	CREVASSE
Test site cover-up on two levels	BIKINI
The kings we blessed five times out of seven?	WEEKNIGHTS
Uncovered urn in the style of an Attic feature?	RAFTER
Unexpected first sign of break -- game point following ace	ABRUPT
Warning seen by abandoned Soviet group of planes?	FOREST