The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 292 - Jan 27 2010

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Clues Answers
A couple of lines in poor song BALLAD
A dram inn served bureaucrat MANDARIN
A gang working in desert ABANDON
A gun each APIECE
Abrupt dramatist, eccentric and unpredictable type WILDCARD
Advance payment for servant RETAINER
Animal seen in many a land NYALA
As well as bagging game, sailor attends club for midnight meeting WITCHESSABBATH
Box blows over SPAR
Cry as cadet condemned coward SCAREDYCAT
Excursion from French city cut short TOUR
Forms army officer left out GENERA
Frost's poem, reportedly RIME
Gloomy, staying unsettled STYGIAN
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Instant credit TICK
Interference to broadcast around the north SNOW
Killer in bestseller by husband HITMAN
Left home, adopted by nun SINISTER
Lively fellow, hairy FRISKY
Machine, pretty faulty having loose wire inside TYPEWRITER
See head of glamour girl in mirror GLASS
Snip scut of rabbit, initially TAILOR
Song from Callas needing no introduction ARIA
Soul singer's two boys ROBINSON
Take no notice of cut DISCOUNT
Turn down quantity of filled dumplings DIMSUM
Unhappy about everyone suffering a setback in oil centre DALLAS
What can make G-man spit in favourite haunt? STAMPINGGROUND