The Telegraph TOUGHIE Feb 27 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 2,392 - Feb 27 2020 Answers

Clues	Answers
A French cycling siesta is least relaxing	UNEASIEST
A posh girl beginning to sing articulated 'Forever Young'	AGELESS
Bond heard hint about Republican self-flagellation	GUILTTRIP
Charlie has strange optimism about king introducing solidarity and fellow feeling	COMMUNITYSPIRIT
Drug smuggler, losing base, acquires church for plant protection	MULCH
Following trivial provocation, time's lost in training device	FLIGHTSIMULATOR
Group of soldiers weep over sad tune	CENTURY
Hold up dispatch about product's key feature	SUSPEND
Horrible tailless rodent suppresses wicked snort	MONSTROUS
Horse holds line with odd instrument	STEELDRUM
In disgust, Rose rejected retiring in holiday locations	RESORTS
Most hush-hush Potter novel involves short time	TOPSECRET
No place to stay around outskirts of Teesside for recorder	NOTEPAD
Occasionally, Thea picks up poem	HAIKU
Over heads of slips, inaccurate drive finally gets runs for willow	OSIER
Prisoner died following sailor's escape	ABSCOND
Prosecuted about fish that's sickly	SUGARED
Recipe adapted to double sulphate in retrospect	FORMULA
Register a large ship, a cutter, not complete	ALMANAC
Respite from rent increase?	LETUP
Small, small notes	MINUTES
Snipe eventually stuffed with grouse	PEEVE
Sodium smell is beginning to develop	NASCENT
Supply spring publication	ISSUE
This country's wet weather expected initially in another country	UKRAINE
Trump beat her clubs, brave man holding no trumps	CLINTON
Uninspired, he advertises bottles with a cherry mop	REDHEAD
Wanting more resistance for England's opener is more foolish	NERDIER
Weller, perhaps, at first upset regularly erratic retainer	SAMURAI
Who rose without partners around to manage stars?	HOROSCOPE