The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 3,195 - Jan 4 2024

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Applied transfers HANDSON
Case unfinished in month, needing year to establish pro-women rule MATRIARCHY
Cat lady's limitations? One will abandon nothing LYNX
Celebrity flat is a place for comment? NOTEPAD
Chief plant-holder, overturned, almost cracked TOPBANANA
Crime discovered after quantity of money turns up ROLLSIN
Don't come to see comedian STANDUP
Expression of love involving ultimately playful smack FLAVOUR
Failure to limit minor upset for busy German city DUSSELDORF
Favourite time, tucking into dessert? One could shift some drink PIPETTE
Fine, perhaps, to fight where shootout occurs? PENALTYBOX
Fool entering shot with old artist PICASSO
Frighten one away from person following regime DETER
Goes on binge, losing head -- wakes AROUSES
Have nothing to do with criminal injury provided by soldiers ABHOR
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I am surprised about work without much purpose MOPY
I feel bad backing lad's affair LIAISON
I will study team on the left, making the wrong choice? ILLCONSIDERED
Irish writer quick to support king's son JONATHANSWIFT
Leading figure to make small point in front of our group's historian HERODOTUS
Look after new money after dropping penny NURSE
Mockery and a lot of anger over US city IRONY
Number covered by dreadful group BAND
Post Office, suppressing recent failure, compromised image PHOTOBOMB
Rhubarb served up with American donut TORUS
Schoolboy howler not at first recalled PUPIL
Succeed in love, though not in accepting love PASS
Such, if replanted, will lead to a blossom FUCHSIA
Union arrangement ended quiet operation CLOSEDSHOP
Yearns to be seen around facilities in underwear LONGJOHNS