The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 1,279 - Oct 22 2014

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'Sweet!' one cries aloud ICECREAM
and 14: Faff about stuffing crumbs into Brent goose prepared for main course BEEF
and 26: Berry's split accommodation charge PEPPERCORN
and 30: Satisfied workers, in Ptolemy's interpretation, creating an ideal economic state of affairs FULL
and 6: Source of leverage secure, acquiring Shard? BARGAINING
Band drink on stage, incessantly NECKTIE
Bobby occupies run-down let -- see contract TELESCOPE
Brown -- Treasury fanatic? CHESTNUT
Crowd fund announced? HORDE
Curl's split end riled somewhat TENDRIL
Disturbed one among the French having spasm LUNATIC
Expert: 'Flatfish season's not quite finished' DABSTER
Hide's converted, we hear SUEDE
Indication my MP's to get sacked SYMPTOM
Late news Stone missed in crush OPPRESS
Lotto, say, and chips? OLDMASTER
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Meat Loaf's entire recordings initially misplaced TERRINE
Monotonous speech given by rambling De Niro I missed DRONE
Oil and salt on a beetroot? ATTAR
Peer's plaque quietly removed and replaced EQUAL
Plug Steel, perhaps, extempore? ADLIB
See 1 Across CHIP
See 1 Down STROGANOFF
See 29 EMPLOYMENT
See 8 RENT
Tablet -- yuck! -- medic popped in box COUGHDROP
Third rail 25 moving in and out TIDAL
To and fro in circle dance? ROUNDTRIP
Token 'bird' goes to heart of popularism TITULAR
Trees woodman turns to wood -- thus? MANGOES
Unaccountably swallowed too much alcohol -- jury's conclusions ODDLY
With engagement cancelled, learnt painfully about 'elite' NEUTRAL