The Telegraph TOUGHIE Apr 29 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 2,427 - Apr 29 2020 - Puzzle Answers

Clues	Answers
Bad person's object of worship set up as one outshining the rest	DOGSTAR
Beautiful female, wife with one good hairpiece	PERIWIG
Bird with supposedly supernatural power over family	MANAKIN
Church involved in something tacky gives request for silence	TACET
Complaining about parking becomes addictive	GRIPPING
Dear seen to be excited by player finally -- has he succeeded?	SERENADER
Ecclesiastical offence is about cash -- curate finally put away	SIMONY
Erotic little woman at end of street meeting male finally	STEAMY
Explosive claim of someone who has annexed territory?	LANDMINE
Few OK, struggling with hard time? That's far from the truth	WIDEOFTHEMARK
Gelatinous substance from a fish? A fish!	AGARAGAR
Lying as the solution to one sort of problem?	BEDREST
Note Mahler maybe failing to finish song	PSALM
Number joining bishop in time to join eastern ritual before Easter	TENEBRAE
One destined to succeed, just as reported? There's a price for being on the up!	AIRFARE
Previously travelling nowhere without husband	ERENOW
Record kept aboard ship -- one's showing presence of deadly bacteria	SEPSIS
Rejection upset boy -- is girl hiding?	DISMISSAL
Spoil charlady naughtily, rendering love songs maybe	RHAPSODICALLY
Story in the Spanish inn that's uplifting and that can be told	RELATABLE
Support good queen going about old city keeping dry	BUTTRESS
To compile difficult? Nothing in it!	HOARD
Unpleasant quality of wine going to the head after end of luncheon	NASTINESS
Very little desire in these people losing heart completely	TITCHY
Was glitzy snow vehicle seen outside recreation area?	SPARKLED
What rowing may become when ego is let loose!	WRONG
What's not good about novel being hit?	BASHED
Yacht is at sea in ancient region	SCYTHIA