The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 1,447 - Aug 13 2015

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Clues Answers
14 is donkey to hit wicket BURROW
14's 'Listener' article curtailed EARTH
14's flag SETT
Bond embraces Ivanova -- initially in private SOLDIER
Charlie's discharge interrupted by moderate truce CEASEFIRE
Conveyance fixed bar a hitch BATHCHAIR
Decorated chandelier's crafted eschewing aluminium ENRICHED
Defendant's account gone through ACCUSED
Dump rubbish around hotel? Rich do! THRASH
Dwarf skull in a tin, strangely? Turn it round DOMINATE
Endlessly boorish fellow going to cool Cambridge college CHURCHILL
Essence of alcohol taken as 14 HOLT
Eventually having good fortune to hold ace MANANA
Herb's grand old gun BASILISK
Innocent action chokes River Yare at source DEWYEYED
Make an impression with strike back in the UK? HITHOME
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Most music dear to the French in summer 1976, say? SCORCHER
No returning by cargo area when delayed ONHOLD
Nuts and bolts loose in briefcases? Repaired free abroad BASICS
Playwright imaginatively uses alchemy -- but no space for printing here AESCHYLUS
Privy Seal's incomplete and muddled 14 VESPIARY
Proceeds to mail third party in confidence? GATEPOST
Put fish in to cook plainly FREELY
Ready to put up son's offer DIBS
Reportedly annoy sappers in galley TRIREME
Reserve's chance to appear regularly with Harlequins' First -- 'e's on the wing CACHE
Sailor missing so ordered retreat LAIR
Singular persuasion needed for strip SCREED
Sit on the fence with fiddle, led astray? STRADDLE
To illustrate, reduced unemployment benefit's brought up as 14 LODGE
Tweed's on the rise, my man! SIRRAH
Wave caught highest point of promenade, swamping verge CRIMP