The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 2,288 - Aug 28 2019 Crossword Answer

The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 2,288 - Aug 28 2019 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
Maria not one to put on scanty thong in the long run	MARATHON
Me self-consciously about to get silk?	MOIRE
Minute edited from chirpy daytime broadcast is source of internal discomfort	HYPERACIDITY
Mob's coup plea concocted	POPULACE
Note romantic name for diamonds	TENNER
Page bound not to be read	ENDPAPER
Parsons maybe going commando for crying out loud!	NICHOLAS
Raucous antelopes voiced in trailer?	HORSEBOX
Shop hand, one working on attachment thanks to farmer's wife?	RETAILER
Small core affected everyone present	ALLCOMERS
Superficially tinker inside bonnet of American souped-up car	HOTROD
Western Avenue in the news or half of Great North Road with better reason	AFORTIORI
What a lifer does as part of keep fit?	ALONGSTRETCH
Where a sparrow might take a duck	BIRDBATH
With long legs raced extremely gracefully	RANGY

Clues	Answers
'Be all ears' at 10 Down	ATTEND
0-12' space in numerous cases	OFTEN
A bogus journalist getting red-faced	ASHAMED
Butterfly -- also a sign one's turned up in 23 Across	COMMA
Confer with writer about proofing	DUBBIN
Endlessly vamp chant	MANTRA
Feller occasionally a parasite	FLEA
Fragrant resin laurel emits internally	ELEMI
Garbed for a change in Eastern fabric	GABERDINE
Habitual pretender: old-maidish and head of school in addition	POSSUM
Heading for 50th? Leave it out, that's ancient!	OLDEN
Is across the Channel in nothing less than moody reserve	MODESTY
Kid perhaps destined to be conventional	HIDEBOUND
Loss of old husband from depression: remains found in garden receptacle	TRUG
Lumpy, bumpy bus route	TUBEROUS