The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 2,270 - Jul 26 2019 Crossword Answer

The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 2,270 - Jul 26 2019 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
Love to pursue record bash	DISCO
Marked elder in African forest?	SILVERBACK
Maybe Queen Vic's beer gets knocked back	REGAL
More than one's in The Cat Sat on The Mat (Cameron's doggerel)	RATRHYME
One getting into the next lift?	HOIST
Picture bean counters with a black car taking one out	CASABLANCA
Start and finish of race with gun backfiring at Cowes?	REGATTA
Taking day off, dish dreamt up ... by Nobu?	TEMPURA
Thus break a prisoner returning in these islands	GALAPAGOS
Trouble from interior put pygmy off, by Jove!	GYPPYTUMMY
Try to animate Avatar egg	AGGRAVATE
Valuable cargo sure to be lost in weather that's unreliable	STREAKY
Vulgar adjective used to describe asylum-seeker with head lowered	TASTELESS
With time, this Nirvana-seeker can become ecstatic	ASCETIC
Woman bosses modified hems on tiny armchair	MATRIARCHY
Ye Olde Nook and Hook?	ANGLE

Clues	Answers
#moan&fuss	BEEFSTEW
5 following leaderless Man City	ANTWERP
50% taken by Great Plague	EPIDEMIC
Bury FC playing in Italy	INTER
By-product, not special, gets shot	INOFF
Coat for the South of France	MIDI
Cool mate maybe cut up wood, shaving edges	ICEDTEA
Fed 80% of heavy machinery from the wrong side	NARC
First lead-free rent-a-car companies side-by-side or face-to-face	VISAVIS
Fool in NY is first to diss small book	DWEEB
Fox cub beginning to eat bird	KITE
Imbecile cycling with a large female	HALFWIT
In the last month, corporation supports setter's advanced threat	ULTIMATUM
Islander's dodgy undervaluation once unhappy De Niro leaves	TUVALUAN
Joe bought joint	GIGOT
Like member shedloads	ARMY