The Telegraph TOUGHIE Feb 25 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

The Telegraph TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 2,390 Feb 25 2020 Answers

Clues	Answers
Avoided work and moved along, ignoring leader	IDLED
Awfully cheeky and unoriginal	HACKNEYED
Begin digging around river	INTRO
Benefactor promoting new American centre	NUCLEUS
Blot out absence of effort over beginning of resits	ERASE
Brisker steed initially more excitable	SNAPPIER
Broadcast supporting set welcoming hospital's invalid transport	BATHCHAIR
Concubine loses son three times in joint	MITRE
Create surface cover, set up and talk at length; vanish	EVAPORATE
Frenchman possibly with house for a revolting person	GHOUL
I will follow hound that hunts for money	AFGHANI
Material's marvellous, almost sumptuous	FABRIC
Month to go over nearly everything to do with numbering system	OCTAL
Not hopeful result of adding selection of oriental foods	DIMSUM
Ordinary enclosure, dry out of doors	OPENAIR
Outdated second squad	STEAM
Part of maturing row not developed towards centre	INGROWN
Revolutionary ops began working on gallon waterproof container	SPONGEBAG
Schoolmate sadly abandoning scruffy sham fur	OCELOT
Set of stories strangely gloomy about unknown time with husband	MYTHOLOGY
Sparkle of good settled theory now and then	GLITTER
Student leaves cougar for one old lady	MAMMA
Sturgeon's cross, avoiding Liberal lampoonery	SATIRE
Succeed at the long jump away from home?	OUTBOUND
Succeeded, as things are, to halt flow from peak	SNOWCAP
Turmoil as postal system reported awful storm	MAELSTROM
Twerp wanting to have old rag hat	TITFORTAT
Visual's up to date, putting operator first	OPTICAL
What's grown from fuss surrounding unfinished oral	AVOCADO
With limits of barrier removed, fish intrude beyond boundaries	ENCROACH
With no hesitation saintly and not heartless in trouble	INSTANTLY
Yen -- yen! Making money	YEARNING