The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 985 - May 24 2013

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Clues Answers
Alarm at Batman residence earlier CAVEAT
As and Cs are in anagrams ARSENIC
Award winner, with caveat? VICTORIACROSS
Body part scientists probe excessively TORSO
Briefly beat drugged swimmer FLOUNDER
Composed last of letters before half nine SERENE
Current wife's stern WAFT
Ecclesiastical passage, a thoroughfare taken by lady AVEMARIA
Element in uniform, skull cap removed URANIUM
Footwear used by ballerina who falls? SLIPPER
Heath absorbed old symphony EROICA
Human decline? Principally ignoring the Holy Book FALLIBLE
Language -- around centre of Venice DANISH
My drink's knocked over by Olympic sprinter in audience for festival CORPUSCHRISTI
Native Alaskan consuming flesh VEAL
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Old American's hard, roughly reflected in mirror APACHE
Peak I see scaled by extremely healthy powerful few OLIGARCHY
Quantity of beer perhaps brightened others mostly LITRES
S. Coe's rival to stand around lake and see cross-country race SCRAMBLE
Save article by writer for Arts Centre BARBICAN
Seaside wall's an area for hanky-panky, we hear GROYNE
Slug perhaps producing instant lines on tussock periodically MOLLUSC
Stamp out depicting monarch without middle child QUENCH
Symbol of Christmas Day? ROBIN
Systematically set up fake suspect, without force CODIFY
The steamy novel lacks taste ultimately -- one shade of purple? AMETHYST
Vauxhall last in rally, off course ASTRAY
Vehicle insurance needed around top-class city VANCOUVER
Wickedness of Gary, Tim, Ron, Eric backfired ENORMITY
Wriggly thing, hopping mad, needing pee? ASPIRATE