The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 3,133 - Sep 19 2023

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25s for example bracing ship faced with small forces STRESSES
A park pitch reconstructed around area -- it's official APPARATCHIK
African disease is avoided? BERBER
Beat shy opener for bounce, missing wicket THROB
Bent coppers ousting first team's leader from position APTITUDE
Commotion in dictator's steep ditch BROUHAHA
Criminal clue about northern pawnbroker UNCLE
Established measures nearly all acknowledge ENSCONCED
Excellent returns shown by two accounts in plant ACACIA
Father abandons French car carrying one dish ENCHILADA
Fuss after Kipling hero backs emperor MIKADO
Hardly any conform to metric system with tonnes SCANT
In which no axe cut yet if so ordered? STAYOFEXECUTION
Lesbian perhaps seen topless? That's defamation SLANDER
Liberal deserting Midlands region for more remote one? BACKCOUNTRY
Maybe G8 leaders to end talks after month? OCTET
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Moral code set out when gathering here in Rome ETHICS
Needlework that liberates husband as well! TATTOO
Person leaving the demesne -- that chap having departed? TESTATE
Planet almost consumed in flood SATURATE
Potato in Indian fine, or a pudding served up cold? ALOOF
Press covering last letter from George Best CREAM
Retired sleuth visiting Alpine ridge and so on ETCETERA
River near tree bordering a field REALM
Room at the top simple and elegant ATTIC
Search among adult bodies adrift at sea DISCOMBOBULATED
Secret writing on hot image that's reversed CIPHER
Speculator taking time with gold in robbery THEORIST
The same European bird passing over India EQUAL
Wifeless worker at seam finding ancestor? ELDER
Work too hard in connection with duty OVERTAX