The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 1,465 - Sep 15 2015

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All ends when police arrive, once called NEE
Appropriate account filed by four neighbouring characters HIJACK
Around fifty, strand gets to turn white BLEACH
Author's work lacking an initial? ANON
Batting team avoiding a downpour, perhaps? INSIDE
Before ending in servitude, no slave in anthem has inspired a singer BARITONE
Bodybuilder's drug -- finding a trace in blood is devastating ANABOLICSTEROID
Cocktail -- magical concoction containing vermouth MOJITO
Dickens character suffering, one in Shakespeare's game POCKETBILLIARDS
Donne's island lacking leadership as a country OMAN
Eat for a laugh, audibly? INGEST
Ending in diatribe thus, note cut up, as prolix VERBOSE
Father of all insects? Sure! ADAMANT
Fly in pain, by the sound of it SOAR
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Fool serving fish with pork pie CHARLIE
Game with cash for spending a penny, did you say? LUDO
Happy journalist keeps missing the deadline? ELATED
Layer wrapped in polythene HEN
Low figure getting high? ONE
Nasty attack overshadowing nice, oddly RANCID
One who prays towards Heaven or Hell? NUN
Plant -- a source of oil in Welsh town MARIGOLD
Promise to keep relative in want COVENANT
So sage and things getting cooked, nevertheless NOTWITHSTANDING
Solvent, brilliant colour ACETONE
Story books as a gift TALENT
Sustained course of action, as fish out of water swimming GREATWAR
Terrible sadness about journey under famous flag STARSANDSTRIPES