The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 2,204 - Apr 3 2019 Crossword Answer

The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 2,204 - Apr 3 2019 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
In biryani, mismatched items from nature providing soul food?	ANIMISM
Love not left in grimly acted out drama	TRAGICOMEDY
Most guarded and, so it's said, most like literary king	LEERIEST
Online chat about ear, nose and throat, but teeth? None	EDENTATE
Overturn fork out where yew is called for to replace what's left of spruce	UPEND
See 9 Across	BANANAS
Sent back in Marxist Vietnam, second left-of-centre leader	COMMANDER
Source of Old Trafford's talent production line?	MANUFACTORY
Spectacular opening to album in 'Rolling Stones in LA'	SENSATIONAL
They're on track to win	ATHLETES
This may have a bearing on one's progress	COMPASS
Tizzes over fizz	SODA
Vegetable knife cut tell-tale rejected outside leaves	LETTUCE
With end of Satanism, Lucifer may become forgiving	MERCIFUL
Writer leaves legendarily faithful wife to do a moonlight flit	ELOPE

Clues	Answers
& 11 Across What many Ecuadorian truckers must do to annoy?	DRIVE
'Buy any?' posed by odd characters in Arles and, say, Venice and Whitstable festivals	BIENNIALS
A wrong meaning	ASIN
Ample fog to stir up total disaster	MEGAFLOP
Bill that amuses by getting on court	OLDBAILEY
Butt of cigar ekes out smokes	REEKS
Cute revolutionary Cubist swapping sides in Cork	CHERUBIC
Diplomacy is about key game plan	TACTICS
Disadvantage in a sleep being disrupted	PENALISE
Fish hook	BARB
Flapping about like Rupert's trousers? The opposite	UNCHECKED
Heartless Blue Peter clip playing on YouTube perhaps	PERCEPTIBLE
How the French describe their own intellect	NOUS
Hypocrisy and spite I'm battling	PIETISM
Impractical person's to-do file	IDEALIST