The Telegraph TOUGHIE June 2 2021 Crossword Solutions

 The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 2,654 - Jun 2 2021 Crossword Answers

Clues	Answers
About to imbibe first of gins on the rocks	AGROUND
Bishops extremely ingratiating in retrospect regarding primate	GIBBON
Cheese often that is oddly overlooked	FETA
Christmas with Dad working outside upset card game	NAPOLEON
Coastal county's getting cold for daughter, requiring second undergarments	CORSETS
Creep alongside rat? It's actually quite harmless	GRASSSNAKE
Debts, the basis for strikebreaker in plant	SCABIOUS
Denounce loudly male unit being disbanded	FULMINATE
Eats vegetables we hear, ones that used to be popular	HASBEENS
Engine Alec designed shows lack of refinement	INELEGANCE
Entertaining second encore performed thus?	ONCEMORE
Exceeds reckless sum Ron bet involving United	OUTNUMBERS
Great admirer of speech at wedding introducing former Republican	IDOLATER
Humour heartless obnoxious types	VEIN
Material crew discovered heading towards eastern Mediterranean shores	RELEVANT
Meal consumed by Asterix, say, failing to finish cake	GATEAU
Mineral diabetic lacks __ a little to be sent over	CALCITE
Moderate, not entirely correct to break silence	MEDIUM
One from a colony where pickpocketing is unknown?	NATURIST
Raw material for a great boxer?	CLAY
Recalled mushrooms being presented to soldiers on island, small samples	SPECIMENS
Reportedly scullers' sessions on the river increased	ROSE
Serious wound is plugged by doctor	SOMBRE
Short distance from large tree trim untidy surrounding weeds essentially	MILLIMETRE
Stoke's wingers right to defend corner in game	SNOOKER
Supported by board ultimately, boss that is well-read	STUDIED
Talent saw couple occasionally featuring in newspaper story at last	FACULTY
Trendy seaside resort has vacancy on the front	RIGHTON
Weary shifting fudge boxes at sixty minutes after midnight?	FATIGUED
Wine, some brought back from Azerbaijan, is terrible	RETSINA