February 7 2019 The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 2,173 - Feb 7 2019 Solution

The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 2,173 - Feb 7 2019

Clues	Answers
Agent soon to drop M's predecessor, admitting fault	EMISSARY
Blew with rear end emptied	WAFTED
Bugs move in live atmosphere, circling	BACTERIA
Bury, old city stop between Leeds and Manchester?	INTERURBAN
Confine and execute	COMMIT
Creature which is expert rolling in elegance	PORPOISE
Digests cheese with strong smell initially	BRIEFS
Dull tension, topless in bed	MATTRESS
Graveyard church filled early missing regulars	CEMETERY
Info delivered in broadcast	SPREAD
Kick the thing, reportedly, and you're dead!	BUCKET
Kind offer	TENDER
Lift European tax, in part raised	ELEVATOR
Lively, oddly speedy about split up over sex	SPIRITED

Clues	Answers
Manuscript hides unwritten code?	MORALS
Motor set up without new key	CARDINAL
One keeps beat keeping time finally for 'Revolver'	PEACEMAKER
Pretty pass keeps sweetheart crazy over French ladies	MESDAMES
Register and take notice seeing lean behind	ENLIST
Regrets aside about mounting misfortune	DISASTER
Right milk-giving animal has one steer using this?	RUDDER
Saucy show includes 'the lot', naked	INDELICATE
Starts to feed excessively and scoffs, taking seconds	FEASTS
Take part divided by fifty to produce whole	COMPLETE
This hones blade and skins in grand condition	GRINDSTONE
Troll acquires first-person shooter link	LIGATURE
Waits ages catching the French retreating	DELAYS
Work in silence here?	MUSEUM