The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 29,764 - Aug 26 2021 Crossword Puzzle Solution

 The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 29,764 - Aug 26 2021 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
A reason for empty chairs in our country?	BRAINDRAIN
Asian fellows taken in by heretic	ARMENIAN
Bone in fish -- meal putting me off	CARPAL
Boy's story probed by a theologian	LADDIE
Bridge partner of North facing censure	SPAN
Cleric involved in secret sin immediately shown up	MINISTER
Close friend -- solitary, it's said, facing position of defeat	SOULMATE
Country singer returned offering a few notes maybe	CASHBACK
Deliverer of goods tricks uninformed worker needing dispatch	CONSIGNOR
Fusses, there being a list of upcoming jobs?	TODOS
Game with helpful person endlessly offering set of rules	RUBRIC
Heads condemning wrong decided on a new course of action?	CHANGEDONESMIND
It's certainly not helping mother, getting old	DAMAGING
Maureen is on phone -- somewhere for overnight stay needed	MOTEL
Odd bits of old material specially fashioned for customer	TAILORMADE
One fellow helping another at an American match	GROOMSMAN
Plant knocked over in dark office	OKRA
Polish or north European language being heard	FINISH
Pollution maybe from industry	DUST
Power one observed in catty type leading a new church	PUISSANCE
Scottish poet, not the first, to make pots	URNS
Single old females escape for adventure perhaps	RUNOFF
Something indistinct and black that may be on book's cover	BLURB
Sound coming through the mouth? Through the ear!	AURAL
Strip of metal or wood to chuck outside	FLASHING
Trick needed with very good sea food	SCAMPI
Unhealthy group erred, from what we hear and see	SYNDROME
We will be not half embarrassed and polite	WELLBRED
You'd want me in an emergency? I'd let you down!	PARACHUTE