January 1 2019 The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 2,151 - Jan 1 2019

The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 2,151 - Jan 1 2019

Clues	Answers
Advanced evidence of nearby sub taking off	APING
Adventure novel in Latin and film	SHEET
Attacker, idiot, upset social worker	ASSAILANT
Bay under Californian city making you spend a fortune	LASHOUT
Be responsible for old poem on Spain	OVERSEE
Colonel in frenzied state about leaving Queen, say	MUSTARD
Conjuror uses this cut to hold ace finally	SLEIGHT
Copper is worthy of servicemen	CURATES
Current hot and humid weather ultimately clouded over	TOPICAL
Deal with ordinary tops from the east	SEETO
Exhaust insult I spread	DISSIPATE
Fermented ale among spring produce	REALISE
Flag carried by those who win by daring travesties?	SATIRES
Flyers who tweet left cases	LARKS
For this reason Queen restricts short trips	SORTIES
Head of dept once more almost irreverent	PROFANE

Clues	Answers
I'm often seen in a cape and hope ruse runs and runs inside	SUPERHERO
Jump on, say, flamenco dancer's call for helping staff	SKIPOLE
March and Left U-turns with an extra nothing	TROOP
Missile one's invested in going west	PERISHING
Monster toll capping odd sections of road	CHIMERA
Next to a hypotenuse	ALONGSIDE
Part of telecoms system that's at the heart of static in new tellies	SATELLITE
Plaything Mac once tinkered with	MECCANO
Soft-top, say, showing wear damage	SPORTSCAR
Style succeeded getting into art gallery	TASTE
This -- can, therefore seen back around	OPENS
Touching month turning over stuff dropped and scattered	GUANO
Twelfth man's coolness to get the game going again	RESERVE
Upset list collecting by way of flyer	AVIATOR
We review exactly what's needed in unusual circs	CRITICS
Young 'un to gut fish	STRIPLING