The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 1,311 - Dec 17 2014

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After brief holiday, sulk and fume endlessly about acquiring a thermos VACUUMFLASK
Against further ridicule about old Republican YUGOSLAV
Barrel is round and filled now and then with strong drink OILDRUM
Buffoons regularly identify alien craft UFOS
Conference is one that's held over in outskirts of Warsaw POWWOW
Dam antelope confronts male showing a lot of bottle MAGNUM
Entry of pipe organ underpinning piano PLUGHOLE
Escape city shrouded in mist DECAMP
Free broadcasting service not the answer in short UNTIE
Get better treatment needed for repeat cure RECUPERATE
Goody-goody with smutty illicit reproduction PIRACY
Hard to puncture enthusiastic expression, it's clear GHEE
He croons at sea in ship SCHOONER
Mending cables perhaps KNITTING
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Mo runs at pace eventually that's substandard SECONDRATE
Not floundering or searching INDEPTH
Nouveau riche approaching sheikh's banks for value CHERISH
Poem about husband's hard-core outpouring of despair OHDEAR
Quarrel a teeny bit -- but get on RELATE
R for risky situation? RAZOREDGE
Reflector's red top MIRROR
Scholar with ambition to displace a rat found in a particular area ENDEMIC
Smooth clue set: hollow-eyed and tight-lipped CLOSEMOUTHED
Top-less rock group putting on Slade's glitter DAZZLE
Tycoon given black eye boxing ... jump to draw conclusions SHIPOWNER
Waste of popular expertise INEFFICIENCY
With half hour left note total WHOLE