The Telegraph - TOUGHIE - Oct 9 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

 The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 2,521 - October 9 2020 Crossword Answers

Clues	Answers
& 18 Across Reason for securing airfields?	LANDING
& 19 Down Exchange online giants Massenet, Brahms & Liszt?	INSTANT
'Our Father Time/Who art a weather vane/Hallowed be thy ground ...'?	THELORDSPRAYER
A lax body -- most common in mums -- during surgery, finally tucked up?	ABDOMINOPLASTY
Advice about border wind up southern range	THEMENDIPS
Anthropophagic, it's a wild and wicked beast	TASMANIANDEVIL
Between five and 50, this palm would be essential	ITA
City Bank failing to appoint head of RBC	ELY
Crude hire covers University of Little Enlightenment	RUDIMENTAL
Express delivery part of its service?	PAPERROUND
German river leading, in essence, to Cologne, do we hear?	ODER
Monster really will sacrifice wings to be human	ERR
Naked logic exploited failing -- Kirk didn't see adversaries using it	CLOAKINGDEVICE
No alfresco party to ruin!	DOIN
Order of Mammalia yielding religious figure (not lama)	IMAM
Perhaps Idomeneo and Flavio hope to undress before Overture to Swan Lake	OPERESERIE
Quirk of taxing Formula One scrap, keeping heat right up	FISCALDRAG
Returning student doctor not entirely the same	IDEM
Scandinavian heptad, now deserted by leader of eight	SVEN
See 17 Across	GROUNDS
See 4 Down	MESSAGE
See fencing exercise scratching face? It shouldn't	EPEE
Some relief from the rants of Mad John Bull?	ENGRAVINGS
Some uttered an expression of relief	AFEW
The writer's prudish, having exposed adult book licence	IMPRIMATUR
Volume: a pretty tiny novel within a novel	VANITYFAIR
With regular saves on field, no goals	NIL
You'll see this man, initially cornered in board meeting, rip off flier	ROOK