The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 1,314 - Dec 23 2014

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Clues Answers
Be unable to keep up with a complicated narrative SAGA
Blows hot and cold? TAPS
British liner travels into foreign city BERLIN
Convinced train will be derailed by ice, I must get off CERTAIN
Demented, with a crack on the head GAGA
Direct attention either way REFER
For each falsified chit, put inside, in jug PITCHER
Foreign port or local one BARI
Funny actor performing that makes us laugh CARTOON
Gamble on a letter from abroad BETA
Gets as disgruntled with commerce, wanting to be a celeb STAGESTRUCK
Go together JOINTEFFORT
Half your age but without a motivation URGE
He'll get you what you want -- information, that is GENIE
Implement return of stolen property TOOL
Kind and gentle, yet outwardly quite different TYPE
Leaving word GOODBYE
Clues Answers
Left for good, time after GONE
Liking cream on top ELITIST
Nothing in it -- a very little IOTA
Nuts about my Alsatian, lads will be romping ALMONDS
Observed figure entering early in the morning SEVEN
Paradoxical things the Cheshire Cat would show? CANINETEETH
Persuade chum to go ahead in financial planning BUDGET
Report of discharge from hospital after time unconscious THUNDER
Required for nefarious purpose? BADLYNEEDED
Right through, no matter what the score? ATALLPOINTS
Specially heart-breaking for which of two girls? CELIA
Spots concealing the boils SEETHES
Stops having passed over C for 'Charts' LOGS
Stupid, seeing sun as it is setting SLOW
Very quickly, as the head says: 'No, no!' INTWOSHAKES
Where hotel being demolished used to be WERE
Whole lot of help for the shipwrecked RAFT