The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 596 - Mar 23 2020

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Clues Answers
Artist's short name for a holy terror RASCAL
Authentic-sounding Scottish dance? REEL
Avoid team on stage SIDESTEP
Bordeaux inspiring popular orchestra member CLARINET
Check on heart rate REPULSE
Daughter finished book, every single lyric poem DOVERBEACH
Dog lead of dachshund got in Dorset resort POODLE
Dramatist newspaper chief came across TRAVERSED
Duty paid on current vehicle TAXI
Embarrassed about attention after hospital listened to again REHEARD
Father embracing a divine being in temple PAGODA
Girl in form caught out LASS
Jovial girl hated the changes LIGHTHEARTED
King Lear, maybe EDWARD
Link containing too much information about songbirds TITMICE
Clues Answers
Man, thief, heading off ROOK
Member pressing head of orchid with a pleasant smell AROMA
Move through part of garden terrace ENTER
Neat, small conifers SPRUCES
On which one may travel in dark to base abroad SKATEBOARD
Opera: rail at a TV broadcast about ending in 'Aida' LATRAVIATA
Organised tour includes day in the house of the sixth 20 TUDOR
Porter, solidly built STOUT
Rejected players continuously CASTAWAY
Sad record being played in the small hours? DISCONSOLATE
Shopkeeper burst into tears STATIONER
Shown in many as 'a landlocked country of old' NYASALAND
Staunch pal's defeat CHECKMATE
Troubles: account by newspaper about island, Scottish island AILSACRAIG
Uninformed, I admit, about new love IGNORANT