The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 2,185 - Feb 28 2019 Crossword Answer

The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 2,185 - Feb 28 2019 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
Popular's annual inspection I accommodated in the last month	DEMOTIC
Post-punk fan came by hotel	GOTH
Propose suppressing noise when taken up residence	Movedin
Reserve sent out before push	NESTEGG
Return at eleven in carriage	TAXI
Shiny, small vegetable	SLEEK
Singer -- perhaps 16 -- to make the top?	SEWINGMACHINE
Study in rush for report	READ
Sweet tin disappointingly empty	CANDY
They spied regularly in order to get promotion	HYPE
Tidy batting line-up	INORDER
Tie, top hat de rigueur here once a year	ASCOT
Trump's half-time meat pie?	FANFARE
Unsightly lump fish brought up, line cut	WART
V. Lake's frequent co-star wearing light rubber?	ALADDIN
When PM starts to make changes to Bill	AMEND

Clues	Answers
A politician getting invited to clear off, being something of a wash-out	SHAMPOO
After forty winks, start to exercise the back of the neck	NAPE
Art crying out, being the most enthusiastic	KEENEST
ASAP he admitted smuggling: what an idiot!	SAPHEAD
Dandy Nichols's first husband swallowing arsenic	NASH
Farage stripped off underwear at the first hint	VESTIGE
Get to grips with Elgar for solving over two pages	GRAPPLE
Gold coating covers table	PLATEAU
Having been riled, got one's point across	NEEDLED
I find a partner to embrace sex and reproduce	IMITATE
I must slip out of bespoke tailored garment	LEOTARD
In retreat, Hitler besieges tiny state up north, and one further south	FLORIDA
In Sahara, steak is getting cooked without any fat (2,4,2,1,4)	ASTHINASARAKE
Jan Leeming met disheartened, gnarled old boxer	GENTLEMANJIM
Meat for sale, no end of mutton	VEAL
Melting pot (crucible) -- Sheffield's foremost -- which contained British Steel	PUBLICSECTOR