The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 29,296 - Feb 26 2020 Crossword Answer

The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 29,296 - Feb 26 2020 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
Mean to eat mainly raw fish	STINGRAY
Melody dances across street without pretension	MODESTLY
Muscle resistance seen in retired player	RETRACTOR
Parodies efforts to pinch a waistcoat for the Americans	TRAVESTIES
Rioters rioting about races for coffee	RISTRETTO
Sort of nerve required, seeing credit cut after work	OPTIC
Stickers of Independent politician found during checks	LIMPETS
Strange rote -- see enough of different parts	HETEROGENEOUS
Succeed, applying universal rate to most of journey	TRIUMPH
Sucker riding small brown horse	MUSTANG
Tie up and hit hard	TONK
Took off tired, as is confused	SATIRISED
Top ticket perhaps requiring time	SINGLET
Under pressure after spat about verb form	PASTTENSE

Clues	Answers
Bear witness in appointment set tactfully up	ATTEST
Bishop providing topless pubs and glasses	BIFOCALS
Black bits found in butcher's mutton	SMUT
Chaste line taken by church article	CLEAN
Consequences of putting soldiers on the drums succeeded	REPERCUSSIONS
Dependent may see trouble returning during split	RELIANT
Escape, grabbing whip and torch	FLASHLIGHT
Experiences of son supporting discrimination	TASTES
Fairy godmother ultimately enveloped in rancour	SPRITE
Group meet regularly after month	OCTET
Immediately and with fatal consequences holding court	DIRECTLY
Irreligious young lad with no answer needing to be reformed	UNGODLY
Italian city underpinning church element	CHROME
Levels pitches	ROLLS