The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 1,282 - Oct 28 2014

Tired of your current crossword puzzle? Try solving our daily crossword puzzles. GO TO DAILY PUZZLES!
Clues Answers
Bookish graduate, one with credentials having no concerns BLITHE
Cat in address of male bordering river MOUSER
Claim to reduce workforce by day DEMAND
Confused chap: 'I'm the missing husband, that's definite' EMPHATIC
Criminal enterprise that conveys great volume? RACKET
Fearsome rush made pets scamper STAMPEDE
Figure is protecting back of demonstration, rallies, etc? TENNIS
Find player to make throw CAST
Harps played by group wanting bass for emotional piece RHAPSODY
Italian lady getting cautious about wine CHARDONNAY
Like a final wheeze, just in time? LASTGASP
Like a frustrated caller or cargo deck passenger? ONHOLD
Manage to get part in comic opera COPE
Ointment? Masseur's beginning with a large amount put back BALSAM
Clues Answers
One attending course as form's student RACEGOER
One, say, in velodrome reported as small-time retailer? PEDLAR
Outcry with jail riots? Sign of wit is needed JOCULARITY
Paralympic champion making feature crossing river WEIR
Park, perhaps, showing old twisted rope around lake, right? EXPLORER
Pass round Home Counties and break down COLLAPSE
Read in addition about retired gent with yen like a fusspot? PRISSY
Record predicament in bottleneck LOGJAM
Something for sweet city refuge? ECLAIR
Sun on excitable sheikh snubbing tiny meat dish SHISHKEBAB
Time to get screw? PAYDAY
Touch down east of borough in New York state QUEENSLAND
Use spoon in kitchen for porridge STIR
Varied details left out in case of strange agricultural scheme SETASIDE