The Telegraph - Toughie - April 20 2017 Crossword Puzzle Answer

The Telegraph - Toughie Crossword Puzzle Solution - April 20 2017 

Clues	Answers
American child one leaves somewhere in Bavaria with family	MUNCHKIN
Appearance of pigeons at regular intervals, miles ahead	MIEN
Bilious woman needing some Kleenex I've passed over	VIXEN
By place to keep animals, cross underground river	STYX
Charlie's time here in ancient Rome average, on reflection	THICKO
Comedian not initially fit, needing rest for a change	QUIPSTER
Expect judge perhaps to hesitate	THINKTWICE
Financiers are here on business, following special painting	SECCO
Free gift's first choice, taken up as top bit of property	RIDGETILE
Gather a flower when rambling, and preserve	PICCALILLI
Gold steps outside new store for big guns?	ORDNANCE
He and Nora munched, grabbing salt and pepper	HABANERO
Left with hours wasted in comparatively grim place to refuel	LARDER
Loves to smother trout's skin in aromatic oil	OTTO
Noble, with great success, recited poetic lines	HAIKU

 

Clues	Answers
Old place to learn, with Australian, about an aquatic invertebrate	POLYZOAN
Overthrow secular base	LAYLOW
Recently, Zoe defaced nursing uniform	OFLATE
Religious type, one with seat in Ireland, unified states once	HOLYROMANEMPIRE
Runner's spirit rising, about to be uplifted	NIGER
Scavenger, one among crew most of all	JACKAL
Single's original released by Rod Stewart sadly failed to progress	TRODWATER
Sordid property chap's seen around English headland	MEANNESS
Standing erect, head of trawler discarded sprat	BRISLING
That French pooch barking extremely noisily, makes din	CACOPHONY
That man on pottery course is an author	HEMINGWAY
Type of chair from Westminster area, with exotic brass turning	SWIVEL
Wise person in US city beginning to talk in bygone language	LOWLATIN
Work with surgeon in part of theatre	GODS