The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 1,889 - Sep 27 2017

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Attending in lieu to appease PLACATE
Award zero mark OSCAR
Bite top off -- or cut HEW
Can shoot, though second-rate TINPOT
Caught sand storms circling again? SNARED
Character said what tells character when to speak CUE
Covered up in stiff paper, it's strong DRASTIC
Delightful thank you card TAKING
Deliver pie TURNOVER
Derogatory remark about waist that's going too far ABITTHICK
Don't allow when junior gets to bed on time BOYCOTT
Either retiring or friendly and sociable OUTGOING
Feel destiny has it in store for family heir? ELDEST
Female that, boarding bus, may get items from garden centre SHE
Gives non-fishing actor angling role -- with these results? MISCASTS
Having had small refill, cork STOPUP
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Hitch old airline's admitted to in warm weather HEATWAVE
Marks 'Property of Hell?' NICKS
Member of team in Bermudas and T-shirt? SHORTSTOP
Network group of us bought, ought to junk WEB
No sign of -- absent from event NOTATRACE
Not having been polished by daily? UNEDITED
On to B for 'bucatini'? PASTA
Said cargo compartment is no longer watertight HOLED
Showing effects of years in prison? TIMEWORN
So grasp to turn off SICKEN
Technically, more than half rioting could be racial ETHNIC
Tennis watched on TV in bedroom? SECONDSET
This is fabricated -- everything in it is somewhat implausible TALLISH
Timeless secrets unfolded in break RECESS
Vandalised letter boxes round surrounding area and stand TOLERATE
Writing round border in yellow PRIMROSE