The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 1,685 - Oct 5 2016

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A badly loaded trunk, short side first -- it'll move as you walk ACHILLESTENDON
A drink and a biscuit BOURBON
Animal feeding insects to mad hatter HARTEBEEST
Band involved in hold-up storing paintings in Germany GARTER
Beak's not available on half pay NASAL
Catch up with spouse but back off ENTRAP
Classical verse with injection of humour finally would be funny IONIC
Clever bishop dividing beer ABLE
Don't tell anyone bishop's stashing bottles PSST
Dress game up GARB
Elitist-leaning set? INTELLIGENTSIA
Go on girl, put a drop of gin in it? SHOTGLASS
Good time girl of a type that may grow on one FUNGAL
Gosh -- unprincipled bird standing in for another CUCKOO
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Iran reacting to riots in strange land TERRAINCOGNITA
Language earns poet fans ESPERANTO
Little Greek character put in nick NOTMUCH
Mafia bosses finding trade union slow to yield CAPITULATE
Nipper excessively slight, lacking inches TOOTH
Noodle soup starter changing hands -- food supplied is awful LAMENTABLE
Old hands returned, mobbed by audience in island nation EASTTIMOR
React badly encountering lame, vacuous sentimentality TREACLE
Rob to achieve equal split after leaving wife BREAKINTO
Soldier gets stressed when mentioned in dispatches -- put it in a different way PARAPHRASE
Springiness not uniform in loaf BONCE
Study again about nonsense author's written for ending RELEARN
Ultra-cold Double Diamonds ICED
Veto bad nominee mistakenly named earlier ABOVEMENTIONED