The Telegraph - Toughie - Oct 26 2018 Crossword Answer

The Telegraph - Toughie - Oct 26 2018 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
One funny way to block ridicule	JESTER
Oomph in something like rented vehicle	CABRIOLET
Playwright's lowest point -- what son rejected	SHERIDAN
Rivers e.g. hold water -- guide across channels?	STANDUPCOMEDIAN
Rule for one that ruler's upset about	REGIME
Slug or shot	BASH
Soldier, number 19	COMMANDO
Some pupils, by splitting from this, failed	SIXTHFORM
Square peg out to keep up, too	POOTERISH
Stop wasting time with a variable pump	QUIZ
Tenant's payment to landlord out of hand?	RESIDENT
The decision of corrupt officials, in part	UPTO
Thief fences small dog	PINSCHER
Vision, certainly in place in blindness	EYESIGHT

Clues	Answers
A plastic pig is outside the law, miss	PLEXIGLASS
Blunt end of pencil ____	POINTBLANK
Contend with what 23 allows	VIEW
Drink oddly seen in clean house	CHASER
Give old footballer old wife	BESTOW
Got fine reception with old copper	FATHOMED
Hardy and Pinter forged papers	INTREPID
Hill shelters people generally keep	TOWER
In 21? Wow!	WITHIT
Just manage to get junk article off eBay?	SCRAPEBY
Language, one that's back to front	HINDI
Look for an audience to wind up	PIQUE
Mum's after a computer game	HALMA
Not seeing death? That's new over in heaven	BLINDNESS
Old men gathering on subject of hairstyle	DREADS