The Telegraph - TOUGHIE - Aug 5 2022 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

 The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 2,900 - Aug 5 2022 Crossword Answers

Clues	Answers
About to stop exchange of British car in service, as called for?	MINICAB
After appearing here you may turn up late	HITLIST
Following composition, Elgar hid a top pupil	HEADGIRL
Following inspiration after vacation, engineer passed to a high degree	INSPADES
For Her Majesty, I start to seek the other lost kingdom	WESSEX
Frisky body about to welcome naked clique	AMOROUS
Gibes averting tense relations	AUNTS
Girl guide's beginning novel	GEMMA
Glorify position just after fizz regularly quaffed	LIONIZE
Go west with artist, an expert in fare-reduction?	DIETITIAN
Hanging inferior artefact's frame upside down	TASSEL
Head of Playboy almost sacking cover model?	PEARL
Hitter hit fans of a Cardinal	THIRTIETH
Impromptu party outside hotel hosted by Bill?	ADHOC
In time, diminishing externally	BATTING
Irreverent church that's terrifying laity at last	CHEEKY
It's meant to crush Hercules, beaten without question	SQUELCHER
Liberal drip taken apart in revelation that's dynamite	EXPLOSIVE
Liner in a suit damaged -- note written about it	LUSITANIA
Moving sessions?	PUBCRAWLS
Musicians beam in bars	BANJOISTS
Obstinate compiler has all others going first	RESTIVE
One very close to Samuel Slack?	SOULMATE
Plant, not in a bed, swamped by endless heather	LUPIN
Prefect perhaps chasing permit picked up somewhere in Shropshire	TELFORD
Quiet, sort of spongy garden area?	SHRUBBERY
Rating former monarch to whom sisters answer	ABBESS
Setter had set on island, in a manner of speaking	IDIOM
Stand either side of hurdle, by the way	STRADDLE
Store offering adult service	AMASS
Such influences may follow bloody minute change	HANDS
US city worker into almost all maps	ATLANTA