February 5 2019 The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 28,966 - Feb 5 2019 Solution

The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 28,966 - Feb 5 2019

Clues	Answers
Aussie bouncers -- opener in terror bats here!	ROOST
Capital worker brought in without risk	SANTAFE
Conservative thug shows political muscle	CLOUT
Determined detectives in action	DECIDED
Doctor sees wounded daughter bandaged	DRESSED
Dominant mountain has to be truncated	ALPHA
Finished with girl in Irish county	DONEGAL
Gunners returned to fix light	ARCLAMP
Hide in grass? Well now!	RECOVERED
King two biblical characters help	RELIEVE
Leader abandons modest expedition	HASTE
List quite miserly offers	ITEMISE
Misery as pride shattered	DESPAIR
Old man to bury someone like Monet	PAINTER
One standing who wishes to sit?	CANDIDATE
Only playing new material	NYLON

Clues	Answers
Pipe diameter associated with showers	DRAIN
Pray to some in centre -- atheists!	ENTREAT
Protection linking Bond with revolutionary Irishman	CHAINMAIL
Religious leader amid all involved with AA	DALAILAMA
Setter's wretched existence?	ADOGSLIFE
Struggle to survive in desert heat?	RATRACE
Summers Greeks and Romans could count on?	ABACI
Terrible trauma grips English hobbyist	AMATEUR
The compiler is ready -- solver reportedly unprepared	IMPROMPTU
Theatre role coming up for hunter	TRAPPER
Thiamine reacts with nitrogen, generally	INTHEMAIN
Use a very excellent line	AVAIL
Visibly amused male, one wrapped in cast	SMILING
Wreck of vehicle is dumped in valley	VANDALISE
Write ascending melody for sea god	NEPTUNE
Zeppelin songs really cool!	AIRSHIP