The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 28,987 - Mar 1 2019 Crossword Answer

The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 28,987 - Mar 1 2019 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
Notice cancelling barbecue meal? A tricky situation	NOPICNIC
Pantomime character made to look silly	DAME
People doing the wrong thing in terrible ruse when lass comes round	MISUSERS
Plant enabling agents to capture idiot	CASSIA
Quiet state for young man	SHAVER
Rail-user's excited -- leaves the big city behind?	RURALISES
Real don, exceptional old genius in many fields	LEONARDO
Restricted around end of career and ready to retire	TIRED
Somewhat OTT adult sank teeth into chum wickedly!	ABITMUCH
Sort out drinks -- conference speakers may need them	ROSTRUMS
Space gone over in open land	MOOR
Storyteller producing a work about French art	AESOP
The termination of concert pianist's tours?	TRAVELS
Writing that keeps doing the rounds over a period of time	LONGHAND

Clues	Answers
Boy hugging beautiful woman is given name	LABELLED
Boys? Bright types from what we hear	SONS
Busy person entertaining a guest, surprisingly gracious act	BEAUGESTE
Camp's in trouble with herd, ending with frisky elephants?	PACHYDERMS
Cede, alas, when beaten in mounted attack	ESCALADE
Conspicuous people given insults heading off	LIGHTS
Fish in lake in the morning to get something caught?	LAMPREY
Footballers given special experience, we hear, in town's hidden part?	BACKSTREET
Foreign lass in Home Counties, no educated girl	SENORITA
It's bound to be quiet at far side of meadow	LEAP
Keep quiet about wait	PRESERVE
Keeps up unrealistic plans	CASTLESINTHEAIR
Maiden in charge of costumes, hazards to health?	MICROBES
Mark crosses square in police vehicle	SQUADCAR
Nothing given to one naughty girl -- one may get into bed	OILRIG