The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 1,530 - Jan 7 2016

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A fly going up bikini TANGA
Card player put in virtually double for joker CLOWN
Contents of cellar Neuburger and Claret -- luckily all for opening? TABLESALT
Disappear, somehow like gas masks on worried faces GOWALKIES
Doffing cap, gallant on frequent occasions NIGHTLY
Elder beyond old, as native American OSAGE
Free country holding Nationalist officer back UNLOCK
Gangster, warmer one SCARFACE
Getting kiss finally, quickie, one's off on a long journey SPACEMAN
I'm astonished! A shed converted into fruit shop! HABERDASHERY
In US, a Texas capital, possibly? AUSTIN
Kill fish then tailless rat GARROTTE
Long-distance runner cut over peak in Nepal SEVERN
Man secreting a note, as source for copper MALACHITE
Maybe I am behind first of lapwings, flock of geese going overhead? VOWEL
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One curing heartbreak? Inspiring film song of the Fifties LOVEMETENDER
Orderly's contract TRIM
Possibly sleeping in solitude, baby turning over ABED
Practical joke on jerk LEGPULL
Rejected role, cross, having to go up a hole leading to the stage TRAPDOOR
Roman once dropping in by way of the country LATVIA
Seen before dawn, very rare bird REDSTART
Serious mark of a French writer? GRAVE
Show characters around Asian island, as mystic CABALIST
Sloth, one I cannot fancy INACTION
Survive hunger, as fit BELONG
Thirsty, English drink uncorked? EAGER
Well-groomed tree SPRUCE
Who's on an unmanned spacecraft keeping dry part of the rocket? NOSECONE
Wingers for Chelsea ineffectual, lacking goals CAUSELESS