The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 2,422 - Apr 21 2020

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Beast taking zig-zag course? EWE
Big Chief Iron Cuckoo enters stone circle GERONIMO
Blockhead in Obama's shoes ASS
Bum around new French location NANTES
Choice to turn it on after surgery OPTION
Composer changes not one note, ultimately VARESE
Depressed daughter to have drink at speed DOWN
Good results with point to secure at home WINS
Group cutting worst records ruined me CROSSWORDSETTER
Hunter in exploit over enormously long period ACTAEON
Incredibly small alpha male in charge ATOMIC
Membrane found defective in a primate PIAMATER
Men returning caught enormous bird ROC
Mike cuts Roman flower in wood TIMBER
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Military force works to contain Frenchman having last word ARMAMENT
Old Spaniard in firm runs trial that's incomplete CORTES
One knocking forest spirits? GREENWOODPECKER
Plato with commission to destabilise global view COSMOPOLITANISM
Robust force from Spanish and Babylonian cities VIGOUR
Secret agent necessarily underground? MOLE
Sewer, lake and river up in north-east NEEDLE
Small measure taken to rein in a cleric IMAM
Staines Massif character Scots hooligan put straight ALIGNED
Turkish commander edges away from infidel AGA
Waller took top tip from Roach -- piano's inside HADRIAN
What might give heart a big shock? EARTHSHATTERING
Wine produced by Middle Eastern country endlessly MADEIRA
You could say we admitted to sick satire ASITWERE