The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 28,989 - Mar 4 2019 Crossword Answer

The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 28,989 - Mar 4 2019 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
Ornamental loop: special topic	PICOT
Paintings sent back, along with poems and crosses	TRAVERSES
Pal entertaining wife with good talk	CHINWAG
Rebuke agent over cover for house	REPROOF
Rum inns serve Highland city	INVERNESS
Runaway due, about to be returned	DESERTER
Sample includes best timing device	STOPWATCH
The type of hat that can be eaten!	PORKPIE
This I'm cooking -- a shank?	MISHIT
Time request to see church working party	TASKFORCE
Toff seen in Paris today	ARISTO
Tolerate criticism	STICK
Took trendy object, as intended	HADINMIND
Tricky question from a set prepared on the Queen	TEASER
Viceroy in charge of small number in Greece	GOVERNOR
Visibly embarrassed in company revealing set of beliefs	CREDO

Clues	Answers
Almost all of team gathering at lift	ELEVATE
At the same time, move up, secured by rope?	TOGETHER
Belgian city, for example, in piece of fiction	LIEGE
British band, cross	BRIDGE
Childhood home, expensive	INFANCY
Coalmining waste across north, in jargon	SLANG
Conductor and college fellow talked at length	RATTLEDON
Female, American, in genuine denial	REFUSAL
Gold rush territory, over there, enthralling our country	YUKON
Justify tirade after conflict	WARRANT
Like apprentices, perhaps, in short item by editor	ARTICLED
Live down under	BELOW
Look closely at test question	EXAMINE
Make much ado about nothing concerning faulty crate	OVERREACT
Member holding head of orchid with a distinctive smell	AROMA
Missile's loud deep sound resonated round base	BOOMERANG