The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 1,255 - Sep 10 2014

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A small group under canvas drawing together ASTRINGENT
and 22 Down: Pain mixed with pleasure meeting resistance after a time by home bird SAND
Contest whose participants must get used to taking stick RELAYRACE
Count Bruce's top basslines -- with odd exceptions BASIE
Cram tool shed and get hacked off SHORN
Curse articles strewn across motorway ANATHEMA
Dirty fellow (East-ender) tore into food with teeth DENTATE
Dramatist covering end of political conspirator PLOTTER
England and Hodgson claiming funky music may be sort that carries a message ERRANDBOY
Enjoyed Subaru's edgeways cornering USED
Foodies try game rejected by department store GOURMANDS
Forster bumped into tourist in Cornwall EMMET
Hit hard -- lump coming up TONK
Issue is degenerate runs away EGRESS
Judgment time to oust five in assembly CONTENTION
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Left around 100 worked up EXCITED
Less than serious event, for instance, a kind of opera with no pace or dancing EGGANDSPOONRACE
Liberal censures new protection SUNSCREEN
See 26 MARTIN
Self-styled popular celebrity on left's unknown INNAMEONLY
Speaking about conditions? ONTERMS
Stars love return of classic Hollywood genre ORION
Substitute securing point for champions STANDSBY
Tatty dining car neither fashionable nor popular embodying outmoded status symbol GOLDCARD
Thingamy's activities DOINGS
To come across undrinkable beer's nothing BUMPINTO
Unlimited riches that could include mine AMMO
Visibly tired beady leer somehow focused on celebrity's bottom BLEARYEYED
�25 in English money for Guinness, Beck's or Pimm's? EPONYM