The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 1,551 - Feb 12 2016

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Breeze swirling round empty nave in chapel house EBENEZER
Cardinal commonly seen in the velvet revolution FIVE
Copper briefly announced farewell SEEYOU
Dam in need of test -- oh dear, it's been regularly neglected MOTHER
Decide against deliveries right before yet-to-start Christmas season OVERRULE
Deviation by expert, penning note to follow late baseball player ABERRANCE
Drink for each in excellent proper round APERITIF
English in pub annul disparaging hint INNUENDO
Excited since graduation, selecting top 10 per cent? AGOG
First one leaving car around capital after being held up -- one is thinking of you INMEMORIAM
Ghastly rogues attacked the setter GRUESOME
Horrid sort of slip pinched by old dames on vacation? ODIOUS
Kick out the cast for interrupting boring speaker DETHRONE
Once more take up tenant again REOCCUPY
One old grasping bore laid back in state IDAHO
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One who doesn't believe in beginning to inspire composer PAGANINI
Passed on stamp duty to begin with DIED
Perhaps waffle about kinetic energy CAKE
Phrase repeated by soft siren MANTRAP
Reptile in foreign land decapitated when sting is grasped ANACONDA
Rubber mistress? MASSEUSE
Russian movies cut for redistribution MUSCOVITE
Save outliers in Renassiance age RECYCLE
Shied from personnel stopping urban development THROWN
Should one get a lighter sentence? ARSONIST
Sign of approval -- to host retired artist for a long time YEARS
Simultaneously needs resistance to stop defeat in grip of frenzied heathenism INTHESAMEBREATH
Striking police officers holding flower back to front DRAMATIC
Temporary engineers turned up to cut power in derelict house EPHEMEROUS