The Telegraph - TOUGHIE - Jul 21 2022 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

 The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 2,891 - Jul 21 2022 Crossword Answers

Clues	Answers
A wee pun again devised to encapsulate timeless place in country	PAPUANEWGUINEA
Artist cuts offer for thread	BRAID
Casually agreed about eating crusts of overgrown bloomer	PEONY
City director firstly entertained by, maybe, a natural raconteur's device	ANECDOTE
Consider minutes taken in abandoned building at rear of office	RUMINATE
Dissent on the rise picked up by hearsay? Not relating to us	DEMUR
Familiar airs unsettled saturnine guest	SIGNATURETUNES
Favour element disowning Republican	BOON
Figure left after period linked to fossil fuel?	NUMERAL
Flags could be required for this creative type?	PAVEMENTARTIST
Get too old for romantic meeting	DATE
Gloss over one-time trading association, reportedly	GILD
Haggard female in family after end to partying	GAUNT
Heroines oddly ignored for long periods	EONS
Inventive sort taking round at home ordinary stuff	MARCONI
Kiwi dancer shortly in charge gets abdominal pain	COLIC
Large-scale Eastern film	EPIC
Medical officer in hearing given to making cracks?	WITTY
Military hero leads to lively celebrations in festival	ELCID
Normal bargain for root vegetable	PARSNIP
Northern country includes very advanced, idyllic state	NIRVANA
Prank caught by a tourist worker in turn	CAPER
Provisional line essentially followed by first person in style	INTERIM
Radical dictators take to posturing	DRASTIC
Rare poem composed but without a commanding figure?	EMPEROR
Rarefied ground or site retained by English clubs	ESOTERIC
Reticent type turns up in abnormal clothing	CLAM
Revised modern reading inspires international bestselling author	NADINEGORDIMER
Section of network's muting mildly offensive comments	SMUT
Show more dishonesty adopting new statement lacking details	OUTLINE
Study audition of hell-raising actor	READ
Terrible tone set by politician in court giving offence there?	CONTEMPT