The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 2,252 - Jun 26 2019

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Adore slovenly clothes LOVE
After golf, scoffed a posh cake GATEAU
Auntie's boss will be taken in by genuine tramp TRUDGE
Book accepting nothing host cooked will be appetising TOOTHSOME
Change producer? Queen might find that refreshing THEROYALMINT
Choice of medicine when papa falls down OPTION
Depart terribly stifling European bureaucracy REDTAPE
Drama for a bloke finally entering capital city (not Washington) OPERETTA
Fail to survive the last month in rep performing 'The Life of Riley' PREDECEASE
First bit of brown sauce could make one hiccup BLIP
Five tied in swimming final DEFINITIVE
Float independent gallery situated under Bulgarian capital LEVITATE
Forward in game put up with character wearing check trousers RUPERTBEAR
French negative, then positive -- oddly, see Germany at a loss NONPLUSSED
Greed shown by a reserve supporting system to help referees AVARICE
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Having lost two weeks, fresh fighting is close NEAR
Knight's the first person in Paris I'd backed JEDI
Men with time to stop work with corporation PORTLY
My healthy cocktail of cider and ale WELLIDECLARE
On leaving, atone for judge DEEM
Panda owners perhaps seen in endless wood COPS
Parking under sign, regularly ogled Victoria's relative LEOPOLD
Previous maths lesson read out SOMETIME
Rubbish clinician reversed procedure to restrict small obstruction CODSWALLOP
See article in advance LOAN
See rubbish letters broadcast DIOCESE
Sudden shot SNAP
Tendency for Gap to stock large one for adult PROCLIVITY
Try and receive insufficient money? UNDERTAKE
Unknown act playing around 1? The opposite -- they aren't the genuine article COPYCATS