The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 385 - Jul 8 2010

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A Kipling lad, short boy having a sort of posture AKIMBO
A master keeps hold of dog? Quite the opposite if there's a tree TAMARACK
A tourer's abroad -- having used this? EUROSTAR
Arabian woman about a hundred? Unlikely to be this! ARMCANDY
Being held in little credit makes Scottish poet more bad-tempered CRABBIER
Bird not flying north, in roost having flown NOTORNIS
Black Country not particularly interesting? BLAND
City couples getting a bit twisted inside PARIS
Criticise young ladies needing to grow up SLAG
Element from the North diminished and re-expanded NITROGEN
False exploitation traps four ILLUSIVE
Fine cake containing cream primarily SCONCE
French explorer wants cold meat without any embellishments CHAMPLAIN
Greek character holding princess up in Indian city CHENNAI
Humbug comes from manager with no hesitation GAFF
I keep quiet, absorbing excellent article in book ISAIAH
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Impetuosity and ire somehow limited by endless tact FIERINESS
Island with nothing had to be developed? Definitely not! INCHOATE
It sounds like a novelist of the eighteenth century's back ASTERN
Jaunty artist with drunkard's way of expressing affection? RAKISH
Like our Parliament Blair came to wreck BICAMERAL
Member of family has vermouth with a watery ice GRANITA
Monster in den creating rupture DIVORCE
Not getting runs, old-fashioned rabbit CONY
Ray's nearest neighbours in the building DOME
Snakes etc. from India shop flogged OPHIDIANS
Special fluid gets one menial task cut short ICHOR
Spite of one cold inside, masculine on the outside MALICE
State in line with America's avuncular image? ASSAM
Travelled on unlikely flier, we hear -- one making the journey difficult ROADHOG
Wilde right to be seen as sufferer for a cause? MARTYR
Writer with fury wanting rid of Queen and State PENANG