The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 1,524 - Dec 29 2015

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Affect ignorance of an untidy rebel being out of order TURNABLINDEYE
Arrest celebrity over Eastern poison RATSBANE
As an aside, misguided pope ordains heartless rake APROPOSDERIEN
Cold sex during loveless game BITING
Commoner is to call for vote PLEBISCITE
Cook, perhaps, poisoned person with third piece of beef, not second OPENER
Darth ... em, Darth? Shoot-'em-up! SPACEINVADERS
Deed rewritten with this mistake could be reordered ERROR
Dine out to accommodate composer? No way INEVERDID
Doom Mother Russia? DAMNATION
Express doubts strange editor from the South DEMUR
Figure missing in picture IMAGE
Forgetful people start to suffer terrible racist banter SCATTERBRAINS
Heartless wench messed up champ CHEW
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Help section of tribute band making a comeback ABET
Injure hitch-hiker with Ford? DENT
Innovative in the end, Federer stops playing advantage AVANTGARDE
Inspecting German car, sound as a bell? AUDITING
King goes after gold captured by drunken armed pirate MARAUDER
Mollify fool yearning to get answer rather than run ASSUAGE
Number not initially like six or twelve EVEN
One who might wipe out victory refused somehow having eradicated base on river WINDSURFER
Regularly hear painter's going topless for islander HAITIAN
Spray a painful back with oil? Not I AEROSOL
Swellings that might make pair despair? Quite the opposite NODES
Swinger sends up essence of Led Zep pictures TRAPEZE
The French (three of them) on vacation needed a fantasy world LALALAND
Trains excited bloke, 17? ASTRINGENT