The Telegraph - TOUGHIE - June 30 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

The Telegraph Puzzle - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 2,462 - Jun 30 2020 Crossword Answers

Clues	Answers
Afraid leather disguises having nothing on?	IDLE
After confused agitation, sailor gets biscuit	FLAPJACK
Article rejected quotes about conservative man leading disciplined life	ASCETIC
Attack very light, just opening	ASSAIL
Boundless optimism in speech	ORAL
Clear thinking with good fortune capturing thicko with no love for king	LUCIDITY
Credible as beginnings of legal year	LIKELY
Diamonds, for example, and gold for lover	SUITOR
Discipline of type of fiction	SCIENCE
Fall in drops and drips regularly lit up	DISTIL
Flog despicable person, pest seen down under	CANETOAD
Half of titans think deeply about ordinary little flier	TITMOUSE
In a frenzy: pet adder's gone	DEPARTED
Incarnation of backsliding renegade, a vice-admiral	AVATAR
Indeed, once pig pen could be characterised by upheaval	YEASTY
Leave droppings	SCAT
Limit animal flesh, we're told	METE
Marriage partner introducing grand game	BRIDGE
Metal splinter left moving nearer to heart	SILVER
Odd piles, curiously off balance	LOPSIDED
Of organisms, one in horse parasite I primarily control	BIOTIC
Old yet tipsily found after inn in a riot	NINETY
Pampered son accumulated entertaining dross essentially	SPOILED
Put in motion part four of drama at Globe finally	ACTIVATE
Regrets holding key but frees from captivity	RESCUES
Restrict amount of drink essentially consumed in desert	RATION
Sadly, son, I can't give permission	SANCTION
Stable and confident embracing rising church	SECURE
Train engineers transport for late passengers	REHEARSE
Treasonous face admitting nothing in cunning	DISLOYAL
Tricked involving end of lesson taught without challenge	SPOONFED
Tricky manoeuvre's skill whenever on skating rink, say	ARTIFICE