The Telegraph - TOUGHIE Sep 3 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

 The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 2,500 - September 3 2020 Crossword Answers

Clues	Answers
Actor fit to make comeback	ELBA
Caught greeting foreign character	CHI
City disturbance brought to a premature conclusion	RIO
Clothe in undergarment the French discarded	GIRD
Company provided cap	COIF
Description of poor kippers -- or suggestion for overly good ones?	SLEEPLESS
Drink from cans, hugging cool male, oddly drunk	TOMCOLLINS
Expel vacant student holding up distance-learning provider	OUST
Eye star possibly drinking whisky in the past	YESTERYEAR
Fast ship unloaded on track	SPRY
Fat chanteuse returned cases	SUET
Fine member of parliament to be chicken?	FOWL
Firm flying out in case	TENACIOUS
Going to pieces without pot? That's not very nice	ICKY
Grant for one to conceal order error for canteen	COMMISSARY
I bite cop wrongly arresting Republican before anyone stirred?	PREBIOTIC
Injured life-saver bringing in student will get fine decoration	SILVERLEAF
Keen on headless horse	INTO
Kind of dash about on lake	MERE
King cut short by top officer taps part of ear	COCHLEA
Model man perhaps about to leave non-professional type	LAYPERSON
Nothing gained by training writer	POE
One at sea and tense after auction finished early	SALT
Partly regret spitting over better advisor	TIPSTER
Police officer reported description of Blofeld's position?	INSPECTOR
Rich living: German's over for the first time	EXUBERANT
Rock singer initially with Mick?	SANDSTONE
Run unhindered, changing hands	FLEE
Slip into Henley?	DON
Support for bad member's stolen weapon	SLINGSHOT
Treated badly with forces leaving, crowd united	ILLUSED
Wave finally at son with a friend in Paris	TSUNAMI