The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 145 - May 13 2009

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Bill's job is on the outskirts of Exeter POSTER
Book of songs PSALMS
Country giving hand to district FINLAND
Dummy is faster to grasp uncertainty PACIFIER
E African shrub's unknown to a Russian girl KATYA
Eg sewing fancy frock with raw taffeta initially CRAFTWORK
Former customers hold on to it to hand over to foreign power EXTRADITE
French tenor's a nuisance TRIAL
Group of musicians orchestrated contest; not New Style OCTET
In hotel Chinese ambassador makes an appearance ELCHI
Join up middle of pattern below wiggly lines ENLIST
Key American on endless ski run's a Walter Mitty type ESCAPIST
Pesky ads disturbed counters PAYDESKS
Rebuilt Utah tankers participate in rotation TAKETURNS
Recycling tin cans made from the same material STANNIC
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Secret underground cell in Cuba CRYPTIC
Short, straight and thoroughly angry HETUP
Spiritual yet oddly pushy style PSYCHIC
Standard time left in reserve? Just a bit PARTICLE
Sun's best journalist clashed SCREAMED
Thanks to Government we lack men with new dimension unfortunately ACKNOWLEDGMENT
The old question a soft attitude APPOSE
Vaguely amusing or simply a rude person IGNORAMUS
Waiter's assistant returned loan in month OMNIBUS
Warm interpretation of Mahler following Tchaikovsky�s First THERMAL
We made start to tidying wild moorland grass MATWEED
Wept about books being stolen CRIBBED
Work intricately groomed by carpenter GOODBYEMRCHIPS
You heard the French diet is modified at this feast YULETIDE
Zeus, for instance, concealed it in bark TITAN