Once you accept there is no escape from the likes of Donald Trump, at least crosswords can offer an aide-memoire
Ah, the puzzle page. Refuge from the terrifying contents of the rest of the newspaper. And here’s a pleasing, innocent surface reading and construction from Scorpion ...
21acDonald Duck seen in Tennessee for kids’ TV programme once (8)
[ a famous Donald, then value of a duck in cricket inside abbrev. for Tennessee ]
[ TRUMP, then O inside TN ]
24dFirst daughter saved $1,000 for her mum (5)
[ IVANKA without abbrev. for $1,000 ]
[ IVANKA – K ]
12acAmber, i.e. not quite red? (4)
[ without its last letter (‘not quite’), synonym for ‘red’ ]
[ RUDDY – Y ]
17acDoctor Who legs it, getting the message from Johnson (2,7)
[ make an anagram (‘doctor’) from WHOLEGSIT ]
7d If truth be spoken, in the end it’s on the tip of one’s tongue (7)
[ the tooth touched by the tongue when speaking the end of the word ‘truth’ ]