February 22 2019 The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 28,981 - Feb 22 2019 Puzzle Solution

The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 28,981 - Feb 22 2019 Puzzle Answer

Clues	Answers
Adrian is travelling around island	SARDINIA
Archangel playing a harp well, having lost wings!	RAPHAEL
Bananas aren't nice -- you want this fruit	NECTARINE
Become embarrassed like an unfortunate matador?	GORED
Building very warm reduced energy bill finally	HOTEL
Cash pool I demolish ultimately on a spree?	SHOPAHOLIC
Cleric, one about to divide church, creating split	CREVICE
Collapse of accommodation when river swamps it	DEFLATE
Copper and army officer in unorthodox organisation	CULT
Crime involving artist being magnanimous	LIBERAL
Financial dealer needing pounds has krona converted	LOANSHARK
Group of animals went under water crossing river	DROVE
Hebrew character wants drink with a measure of acidity	ALEPH
Hospital with more wind coming through becomes more frightening	HAIRIER
Island country cheerlessly reorganised with king deposed	SEYCHELLES
Loud and disorderly sinner isn't this	FLAWLESS

Clues	Answers
Material used with hesitation by politician in performance	REPERTORY
Noise of laughter drowning performer's last bit	CRACKLE
Page about walk -- the first thing one reads?	PREAMBLE
Piece of wood used on Indians primarily as instrument of punishment	LATHI
Place of rest -- was first to admit something wrong, being afflicted	BEDEVILLED
Priest is out to stop make-believe	PRETEND
Put back in control on business counter	REINSTALL
Sailor in violent rain in French sea	MARINER
Scent -- first thing noticed in the bar	TRAIL
Seen in Perth, an English baron once	THANE
Space traveller who headed a religious 29	MOON
Struggling Tommy or Gen. or FM?	MONTGOMERY
Teams without leader getting day in Rome	IDES
That woman and daughter in crowd	HERD
The thing about bargain is coming from wishful thinker	IDEALIST
Very big vehicle as an academy's prize	OSCAR