The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 1,766 - Feb 23 2017

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Advocate of traditional practices did ornate old instrument cases LUDDITE
All alone, missing one after drink TOTAL
Alleviate unsteady gait in time, undergoing treatment MITIGATE
Attempts to get evidence overthrown in courts SPOONS
Blows caught mouth? CLIPS
Double string and cut off end TWIN
Face beaten up, cut by a right, showing bottle CARAFE
Fires consuming hotel and sheds SHACKS
For just an instant, sound of organ HEARTBEAT
Got reminder about antidote PROCURED
Handbag in two parts? Nonsense! CLAPTRAP
Is critical about one and is hurtful PAINS
Likewise, no member of the hoi polloi ASWELL
Main salon's modified according to time of year SEASONAL
More than one beautiful person breaks down, keeping quiet DISHES
No good cultivating fruit RAISIN
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No good players left, having been pipped SEEDLESS
One is wrong about French word for 'feelings' EMOTIONS
Parents wear identification PASSPORT
Plumbing installed to no purpose? WASTEPIPE
Prepares for test in French, dreams one's got through REVISES
Quickly try to get to end of precis RUNDOWN
Quite dry, sheltering in quarry PRETTY
Riddle of motorway being obliterated in mist and downpour STRAIN
Sends up a lot too high OVERBIDS
Shows animal inside, frolicking about INDICATES
Softens, going to pieces, doesn't confess TONESDOWN
Steal underwear SLIP
Unwilling to take laziness, head dismissed LOTH
Vulgarity often rejected by editor, to be replaced by literary stars? CURSE
We're paying for it and it's a burden ONUS
Witnesses witnessed entering with planks SEESAWS