The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 3,052 - Apr 28 2023

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Beg for goods ditched by man and chief ENTREAT
Change of old term for Andromeda Nebula, for one? FARTHING
Clear web sites centrally NETT
Colleague in same company perhaps ignoring British deadlock STALEMATE
Compound doubling metal price NITRATE
Cut top off beam later on AFTER
Dead poet identified by bones raised below bottom of crypt TASSO
Fan found in abandoned farm vehicle EXTRACTOR
Film announced some century breaks SCUM
For whom coping could be part of the job STONEMASON
Globe, maybe, within which one may operate THEATRE
Gradually includes Times in back copies of favourites STEPBYSTEP
Grumble without Mike, say UTTER
Hold up electronic lighter BARGE
Launch reportedly smashing sci-fi franchise STARTREK
Leak note to skip part of book? SEEPAGE
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Learns about shielding knight put in difficulty ENSNARL
Missile shelter offering protection for free TRIDENT
Mixer is briefly, perhaps, wide open EXTROVERT
Navy possibly daring to be PC BLUEBOTTLE
Oscar intercepts letter with a counterfeit permit TOLERATE
Problem for viewer surfaces at injury time in finals STYE
Secure satellite broadcast TIGHTEN
Spell 'just in time' using only some of the letters STINT
Sweet betrothal partly rejected TORTE
Swing section up on drugs by the sound of it TRAPEZE
Tense time with old academics? TAUT
The Cloth meant to give dry services? TEATOWEL
Thinner internet up for development TURPENTINE
Too much crammed into flash phrase MOTTO
Tribute perfectly covering saint TOAST
Ultra vires unopened text message primarily scrapped EXTREMIST