The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 143 - May 8 2009

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A doctor got us to hospital for the attack AMBUSH
A romance that was meant to be DELIBERATELIE
And in Southern California the gutter press loves it SCANDAL
Break that�s knitted up again SHATTER
Cut back severely on fish PILCHARD
Eliminates the commission given to us corruptly CUTSOUT
Finally drop onto a slot that's moulded LASTOFALL
Find five hundred is a hundred too many DISCOVER
Give a ring back ALLOT
Have a cry about being forced to leave SHOWNOUT
Help a ship. It's in trouble ASSIST
In pink, yellow and black INKY
Is a paper knife used to get them? PRESSCUTTINGS
Kill and destroy the written evidence RUBOUT
One of the rules of cricket? BYELAW
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Passage that has a dreadfully sharp note PHRASE
Quickly gets out a game to amuse the children SKITTLES
Refuse to act and that's just not good enough WONTDO
Seek to clean thoroughly SCOUR
Sour puss going off about rich nobodies UPSTARTS
Speaking French, you study Italian TUSCAN
Stops and repairs, removing the top ENDS
Summons up courage when the bad weather�s returning STEELS
The colours in stock STANDARD
The desk-bound go off � make themselves scarce SKEDADDLE
The poor devil threw off the cold caught WRETCH
The viewpoints of some of our ancestors ANGLES
Using as perches loops in the knotted string ROOSTING
What's unexpected is to find certain rips mended in SURPRISE
Won�t carve the bird? Come, come! NOWTHEN