The Telegraph Toughie puzzle clues 2023 May 16

• Ability to read story filled with smut, ultimately somewhat indecorous Crossword Clue
• Audio equipment offering choice of call, character phoning home Crossword Clue
• Author in front standing to pen new book Crossword Clue
• Bone buried in barrow at the point of death Crossword Clue
• Brass bar as plunger? Crossword Clue
• Cash fine Crossword Clue
• Clear butter quantity probed by all fingers and thumbs, say? Crossword Clue
• Current crossed by lads aboard craft -- lighter? Crossword Clue
• Cut off, one thus gone Crossword Clue
• Drink: good inn can do it on the rocks Crossword Clue
• Equines working a long time, guzzling last of water Crossword Clue
• Fashionable second course Crossword Clue
• Fights during preliminary race, most serious Crossword Clue
• Footwear on pirate Crossword Clue
• German writer beginning on scarier, terrifying tale Crossword Clue
• Keats' almost sensational feeling about a subject of one of his odes Crossword Clue
• Red little mark, fancifully? Crossword Clue
• Setter messed up further attempt at passing Crossword Clue
• Shabby material covering plain silk Crossword Clue
• Shark, teeth like efficient razors, all initially going after fish with tail ripped off Crossword Clue
• Shift first of ice blocking dogsled on the move Crossword Clue
• Soldier on manoeuvres nearing the welcoming capital in Havana Crossword Clue
• Statesman's concern with extra weight carried? Crossword Clue
• Stuck in branches, treetop close, perhaps? Crossword Clue
• Tool is grabbed by team when water cut off Crossword Clue
• Use force to get a compliment Crossword Clue
• Wait in back of limo, opening some American wine? Crossword Clue
• Wrapped in material, case of Soave shut up again Crossword Clue