The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 2,508 - Sep 17 2020

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Clues Answers
... towards a curry, perhaps, after Charlie's underground excavation CATACOMB
Aerofoil allowing forward or backward movement and view? ROTOR
American skipper of Nautilus, on three points, displaying bloomers ANEMONES
Brief outfit for a special figure PRIMENUMBER
Champs elect to be heard CHEWS
Cheering news -- one's gaining a pound ... GENIAL
Correspondence from Proust to be regularly at gallery from the start POSTBAG
Dam, some say, with northward current -- it's monstrous! WEREWOLF
Drone with loose filament THRUM
Envy about Granny's engagement COVENANT
Follow directions audibly from labourer on step NAVIGATE
Gobbles very loudly in street beside The Telegraph STUFFS
He rakes in shattered crags, even SCAVENGER
His out-tray, not small, could be specialist AUTHORITY
Kind of arch exclamations? OGEE
Clues Answers
Mum quiet, only coming upstairs -- something's brewing here! MASHTUB
Shelters accommodate fifty per cent of rides in characteristic groups COHORTS
Ship's doctor, where child needs amputation, is prompt URGE
Singular source for expansion SWELL
Slight suspicion about entering sauna, say? BREATH
Sly army type misused component of a cycle from York MYSTERYPLAY
Small-scale plant's into carbon sailing-boats BONSAI
Son cunning about feet being fast SWIFTLY
Steamed up in refitted frigate -- leaders of force getting withheld IRATE
Support when traversing choppy Elbe? LIFEBELT
Survey playground underwritten by church RECCE
The setter is able to sit below Sting in concert hall BARBICAN
Up-tempo shindig? HIGHTIME
Weakness of vision in Spain agreed with court EYESTRAIN
Without ceremony, nightdress is trimmed by South Bank playhouse NEGLIGENT