The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 2,301 - Sep 19 2019 Crossword Answer

The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 2,301 - Sep 19 2019 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
Lift concrete taking exercise	REPEAL
Living provided with English bill uplifted Church	BENEFICE
Marry holding empty bouquet being thankful	INDEBTED
Miss eating start of meal? Tighten your belt!	SKIMP
Obscure girl with thrill for the audience	MYSTICAL
Reportedly shrink with restricted girdle	WAISTBAND
Restraint remains supporting the French	LEASH
Simple cargo for vessel travelling northwards	ARTLESS
Sound alarm until danger is over initially	AUDIO
Soundly split seat	BREECH
Star group playing round festival venue	ORION
This compiler's explosive!	MINE
Top score before season nearly is over	SUMMIT
Upsetting trend Independent's spoken about leader	EDITORIAL
Worldly Brits back in chilly island, brown	COSMOPOLITAN

Clues	Answers
Banish East German Nazi maybe getting detailed east	OSTRACISE
Battered pancake almost fixed up outside	DECREPIT
Beam pens 'more off-colour' banter	RAILLERY
Big-screen agents retaining troops seen in retreat	CINEMA
Buried shot inside stronghold	FORGOT
Business right to secure house for partner	COHORT
Catch one dieting eating nibble, unfilled	FASTENER
Cheerless love welcoming Republican	DREAR
Combat in Call of Duty's for wimps!	COWARDS
Dead old fish covered in batter, oddly	OBSOLETE
Flushed if ever I shrink trousers	FEVERISH
Following prudish sex this compiler's crude	PRIMITIVE
Foreign port otherwise very good knocked back	OSAKA
Gemstone in lid of oriental china	OPAL
In vacant chippies one batters fish guts	CHITTERLINGS