The Telegraph TOUGHIE Feb 3 2021 Crossword Solutions

 The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 2,586 - Feb 3 2021 Crossword Answers

Clues	Answers
Allow this section of clues to become disappointments	LETDOWNS
Apparently, pals begin to play?	STRIKEUP
Black reptile houses zoo originally used in storm	BLIZZARD
Broken sled discovered in ado	BUSTLE
Church singer in vulgar assurance	CERTITUDE
Consumer of walnut perhaps solicited energy-less grub	WOODWORM
Difficult test involves detective losing diamonds	TRICKY
Dismal starters of jam and yellowing bird	BLUEJAY
Good-for-nothing given award rejected as site manager	WEBMASTER
Hint about level of intelligence for group	CLIQUE
Increase in mature corporation power studied after pre-Renaissance period	MIDDLEAGESPREAD
Journal regularly ignored Conservative speech	ORATORY
Last of tourists moving to east in channel vessels	EWERS
Losing head, drunk's crazy bringing in company to open bottle	UNCORK
Nancy's article absolutely biased	UNJUST
Obliterate European force going to front	EFFACE
Old friend seizes equipment for paper manipulation	ORIGAMI
Pair upset about morning reverie	DAYDREAM
Pardon that is pre-empting nothing in censure	REPRIEVE
Pressed city promoting River Dee	EXERTED
Required target limiting associate employment at first	ENJOINED
Robots do drains badly	ANDROIDS
Saw six-footer introducing husband and lord	BEHELD
Second pound daughter wasted getting second-class firework	SQUIB
Slowly American soldier supports girl with love	ADAGIO
Their hollow measure could be best?	TROUNCE
Tremble as some say ruin won't take over chief's territory	SHEIKHDOM
Trifling 'solid of revolution' reconstructed in Toledo strangely vanishes	FRIVOLOUS
Worked up about copyright, left	EXCITED