The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 1,240 - Aug 14 2014

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A hymn's cooler arranged in the style of the Beach Boys CLOSEHARMONY
Area that's become very dry and stony allotment according to Spooner DUSTBOWL
Asphalt covering fifties ring road the ultimate sticky assignment TALLORDER
Assistant's papers in attache case AIDE
Bank's old name generating trust RELYON
Broadcast blue sentence SENDDOWN
Chip in record one might cue here POOLTABLE
Cook let rip endlessly to get fired again RELIT
Eats jalapeno's hottish centre NOSH
Fast food outlet's flapjack? SNACKBAR
Female's wild sound FLAWLESS
Forbidden cigarette evoked satisfied expression TABOO
French dish taking name from flower DAUBE
Furniture manufacturer's checking not exactly strict about stoppages, etc STRIKEACTION
Minute garden feature's leaking water butt a farce MOCKERY
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Moonshine a whiskey? That's a laugh GUFFAW
Mouth organ a source of pleasure before timeless snippet's made a hash of PANPIPES
No metre in mildly quirky poem IDYLL
Nonconformist's about to be rejected for college, furious HECTIC
Number of drinks provided by new recruits INTAKE
Polish learner in a mess getting straight up HONESTLY
Port in a storm can be bedlam ASYLUM
Senior military man is shelled OLDIE
Session singer possesses that certain something SITTING
Strike at last following feeble left hook SICKLE
Swallow rejection KNOCKBACK
The sum I manage without keyboard CALLIOPE
Tiredness affected 1a's organiser? DISSENTER
Virile and sultry somehow but no Romeo LUSTY
Yield together rather than surrender separately TURNOVER