January 3 2019 The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 28,938 - Jan 3 2019

The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 28,938 - Jan 3 2019

Clues	Answers
Admit being unsettled with US venue	STADIUM
Article is about a group of countries	ASIA
Barely one month before drink with friend	MARGINALLY
Circuitous flight?	SPIRALSTAIRCASE
Command soldiers on base to capture Russian aeroplane from the south	REGIME
Dejection from shoddy gear yours truly gained in cost reduction	DISCOURAGEMENT
Delicate material sags more easily	GOSSAMER
Everyone needs help answering question: are Douglas et al on mainland? (2,3,2,2,6)	NOMANISANISLAND
Frenchman with scarf on rambling around island	FRANCOIS
Get up when caught on object	ASCEND
Join footballers setting up equipment for goals	FASTEN
Lying low after Charlie gets rebuke	CHIDING
Male in one card game showing restlessness	IMPATIENCE
New article, about two pages on European mercantile vessel	TEACLIPPER

Clues	Answers
Not totally pristine, current car	MINI
Old flame, rich model	EXAMPLE
Over European capital, note Japanese craft	ORIGAMI
Personnel involved in opening of sea urchins and crustaceans	SHRIMPS
Poet's old verse on papers	OVID
Roll in bistro's terrible	ROSTER
Second rat reported and more in order	STRAIGHTER
Strongman Capes, perhaps, smothers head of torch that's alight	GETOFF
Suffered setback regarding drink and speed regularly taken	RELAPSED
Take out tie	DRAW
Take up gamble in one choice of roulette bet for important game	DECIDER
That's spoken greeting head	HIGHNESS
Vacancies: fifty in financial institutions	BLANKS
Words fail me, soap not a broadcast giving insightful advice	PEARLSOFWISDOM