December 3 2018 The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 528

The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 528 - Dec 3 2018

Clues	Answers
A check involving Italian character	AITCH
Better money for the most important officials	TOPBRASS
Campaigner badly scarred across middle of thumb	CRUSADER
Check, having lost original copy	IMITATION
Concede match	AGREE
Deliberate trick by team on right	CONSIDER
Easy to see, papers during meeting	EVIDENT
English country property	ESTATE
Exceptional dish of the day? After more?	EXTRASPECIAL
Get rid of foremost of rockers in group, a troublemaker	FIREBRAND
Hacienda operated with support of church	RANCH
Head of brigade entering a lounge on fire	ABLAZE
In rehab, I suspect, in Ireland	HIBERNIA
Kept in igloos, sacred bones	OSSA
Mate carrying one bucket	PAIL

Clues	Answers
New govt. elected in as a result of this?	VOTING
Philosopher extremely disagreeable actress upset	DESCARTES
Plump game	ROLYPOLY
Promenade no safer when repaired at end of August	SEAFRONT
Puts foot down over removing diamonds, a serious crime	TREASON
Regular air service	EVENSONG
Rubbish written about hospital party	THRASH
Runs across wanderer	ROVER
Satirist alive to changes round start of revolution	VOLTAIRE
Shining on leaving resort	BRIGHT
Soothing word with the knight on the spot	THEREANDTHEN
Swindle fool accepting seconds	TWIST
Synthetic material in name only abroad	NYLON
Tsar's daughter, as shown in film, blowing top	ANASTASIA
Wayward foreign trainer I dismissed	ERRANT