The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 2,976 - Dec 16 2022

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'Bust' is me with no cash MONIES
A kids' character not even the Empire State will embrace NODDY
A payment in advance will secure choice SUPERB
Ace in clothes for soaring over the Med? SEABORNE
Aussie carrier: attendant, ill, switches wings DILLYBAG
Certainly not dispensing with refreshment for the afternoon occasion NONCE
Contemplative beer producer, Italian, takes soft drink, preposterously TRAPPIST
Effected dispersal of clouds so was quick to catch some sun SPRAYED
High point for Scot, commandeering Rolls to carry off the relations BRETHREN
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Like a jolly loud warning? ALARM
Like the impertinence of hitmaker? ASSASSIN
Marauding king landed, it's appreciated, from the south ATTILA
Memos lawyer returning from sunless vacation? NOTANDA
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Missing the first ordinal out, the second of twelve ALDRIN
Modified proposal connected to torpedo assignment? RESUBMISSION
No help, sadly, given by service to a Swiss summoner ALPENHORN
Restrained tango breaks hectic routine RITENUTO
Ruffled, glamourpuss not so sweet SUGARPLUM
See teetotaller, naked, moon OBERON
Someone must pay her new girl support DEBTEE
Start betting cartel SPRING
Suffering first of blows during remarkable game PAINTBALL
Thematically shaped tiles are put up around second base TESSERAE
Tin drum collected spiritlessly by the military escort ARMCANDY
Upper and lower parts of this grid are shot SQUARECUT
Vatican City's No.1 missed playing forward! AVANTI
What Santa is fundamentally right to take in his employee program Shape? Pride SELFAPPROVAL