The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 2,224 - May 8 2019 Crossword Answer

The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 2,224 - May 8 2019 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
Painter of plump pulchritude not having finished eating English salt beef sandwich	REUBEN
Recall wife hit out against lottery	WITHDRAW
Run through gardens in South East by river	SKEWER
See 19 Down)	TWINKLELITTLE
See 6 Across	TEAPARTY
See 6 Down	BAT
Silver lining in showing respect	HOMAGE
Slippery character list announced in EastEnders?	EEL
Sounds like science of identification, reads like freshwater fish science, but is an entire way of thinking	IDEOLOGY
Stock improvement from genius involved with Eric Clapton initially	EUGENICS
Suppress a stench that's spread	CHASTEN
Sylvester Stallone shortly to tackle Shaft? Quite!	SLIGHTLY
Two short words promising one long commitment	IDO
Would-be personality exchanged views with bishop dismissed for empty stalls	SELFCONFESSED

Clues	Answers
& 18 Down Rump of goat but no duck in hearty red hot meat tapas dished up for un-birthday bash (3,3,7,3,5)	THEMADHATTERS
& 6 Down & 10 Across Krays perhaps surrounding rickety Elk Lake billet (misprinted, Times admitted) -- nonsense from 6 Across 18 Down	TWINKLE
Bores worry about liberation South supports	CALIBRES
Close border?	END
Delighted to have got on without introduction	ELATED
Dowager Dame Myra or Deputy Führer Rudolf suppressing rage	HEIRESS
Dried meat left in small piece not quite gone off	BILTONG
Elvis, Ali asked regularly to work together	LIAISE
Freelance journalist with no sign of hesitation following thread	STRING
Ha'pence for change caught out object of extravagant courtship	PEAHEN
Infamous atoll's sparse cover?	BIKINI
Leftie egghead last in line going for leader of Labour somehow soaring	EAGLEFLIGHTED
New York baseball team possibly makes alpine move?	STEMTURN
One should be critical about Gogglebox participant?	REVIEWER