The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 2,457 - Jun 19 2020 Crossword Answer

The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 2,457 - Jun 19 2020 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
Intelligence scores dismal, approaching zero, skew	OBLIQUE
Is this opened by White Rabbit and Hare, say, limping?	GAME
Like four-and-twenty blackbirds? And magpies!	PIED
Maximise efforts to serve a mug each	DOALLONECAN
Nettle and grass	NARK
One is a leader in Mosque	IMAM
One will depart parish and use false god	ZEUS
One's to produce picture internally, for first of stars contracted influenza	FLUOROSCOPE
Pass over stretch of canal	COLON
Pastry case -- it's missing: I go after Joel	AMOS
Player doing a stretch by the book	INSIDERIGHT
Surprising end result chap secured in the Open	UNSHELTERED
This baker is to start new project	BREAKGROUND
Tinned soup, initially cold, through action got intensely hot	INCANDESCED
Top actors Rickman and Firth getting fat	LANOLIN
Work load then left for me?	DOALL

Clues	Answers
'Like some marrow?', I say -- look at that interrupting breakfast celebration	MYELOID
A small part to play -- 'Tra-la!' -- with this song	PSALM
After a foul place to go to for kicks	PENALTYSPOT
Ancient Rimer's associates croaked	CREW
Arm and leg finally received by Attila?	HANDGUN
Arm section infiltrating all-powerful nation	ULNA
Cut short year's entry for a bit of old India	ANNA
Flavour of the Month, having nailed business image	ICON
From which ricocheted the outer shot?	OCHE
Frustrate plot the writer's kept hidden?	COUNTERMINE
Geneticist driving pupil longing to control second floor	LYSENKO
Glam rockers back at top of class; we're at back!	DUMBEST
Habit of the Queen, perhaps, to take a turn loading twelve-bores	ROBE
Half-inch nail only at intervals runs all the way to the top	PURLOIN
Heading to university for party in his city centre, doge of good breeding	EUGENIC
Injury writ large after this vox pop escalated	NOISE