The Telegraph - Toughie - Oct 22, 2015 Crossword Puzzle Answer

The Telegraph - Toughie Crossword Puzzle Solution - Oct 22, 2015

Clues	Answers
A little shrub on saikei	BONSAI
After raising a fortune, quit	STOP
Bird's half naked with thick hair	NUTHATCH
Container frigate finally receiving salt's compass location	BINNACLE
Control turns to left	SWAY
Crosses saved holding up referee	ASSESSOR
Endless love of French wear	ERODE
Fabulous bird raised slip over eye-opening bodice	CORSAGE
Following sailor back, the woman's pretty	RATHER
Fugitive time flew, still without length	TRANSIENT
Having experience perhaps with time, it's said	SEASONED
Help overcoming unending trouble reversing woes	SORROWS
Hollow container's almost bare interior	CAVERN
Humble sailor's embracing a sweetheart	ABASE
It's hell with sun to open parasol	SHADE
Jots ideas on tablet, absently scribbling initially	IOTAS

Clues	Answers
Men, Navy's first unit, loading ball for cannon	ORDNANCE
Moby Dick's inner orifices dropping a hard mass	WHOLESALE
Official never admits to getting kickback	NOTARY
Paroxysm as the advert covers newspaper's name	MASTHEAD
Plant yielding more in a paddy?	MADDER
Priest's humbug with people sharing Mass	SHAMAN
Ramble seeing insides of castle abroad, walled	STROLL
Some having ends of chinchilla tails?	CATS
Spending capital, we hear, spreading this?	LARGESSE
Spy about engineers Bond's boss to finish contract	AGREEMENT
Stabs and slices gripping butt of rapier	PIERCES
Starts to settle into tempting sofa	SITS
Superior's attempt to rise in rank	ARROGANT
The French, dear French, by day's end womanising	LECHERY
Thought to ring doctor up and rallied	HERDED
Title's hereditary lacking a noble origin and finish	TERMINATE