The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 79 - Jul 30 2023

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Clues Answers
A number of Germans weren't trustworthy LIED
Adult in nude vids developed rash UNADVISED
Axe a finale from Wagner, like The Ring ANNULAR
Bracing tete-a-tete, say, about student teacher's method TONICSOLFA
Brief recession where people have little money SLUM
Chain hosts wrapped around duck MCDONALDS
Defend gagster, outspoken figure STANDUPFOR
Does one long period end in autumn? Let me think YEARNER
Electronic current blocker somewhere in Holland EDAM
Film-maker supporting fascist regime's leader PRODUCER
Flattening what could be a female medic's gown? EVENINGDRESS
Funny nurses working with drug initially, tending to husband ECONOMICAL
Gradually withdraw shape, it's suggested PHASEOUT
Grand tours south of Spain's capital maybe booming THUNDEROUS
Holiday with e.g. successful film star WHITSUN
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I appreciate that French solver carries cloth round THANKYOU
I follow the units of police -- and I'm terribly tense! DECIMALPOINT
Is a crossword compiler caught leaving schools? SETS
Kid from the east eating hot curry DHAL
Lacking control, Cockney suffering after drinking with Scottish hooligan UNGOVERNED
Little perch, perhaps, one seen in a pond TADPOLE
Might one cram whiskey into boozer? SWOT
More vacuous monarch succeeds Anne I, curiously INANER
Out to seize ring that's fancy NOTION
Place in which soldier evicts tenant LIEU
Project number five needs right cutting tool PLANER
Prune one's cultivated in field CROP
Rancid butter firmly grasped OFFPAT
Set out to pen holy book, with odd barrier to fiction? TRUTHSERUM
Singer in clubs given a wave CAROLLER