The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 1,690 - Oct 13 2016

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Clues Answers
American to dismiss British dependency? It goes without saying AXIOM
Arresting sort enthusiastic about special muscle? Right INSPECTOR
Car teen trashed round street's end in dramatic interlude (4'4) ENTRACTE
Charge by convention for instrument ACCORDION
Criminal strike in sport FENCE
Curtail principal longing to be elevated poet HEANEY
Dear rival affected performer LUVVIE
Deluded character nearly put in dictionary left out OMITTED
Drops much unpleasant material, graffiti artist's recourse? SPRAYGUN
Eat on move in Essex town, we hear GRAZE
Embody in practise a cold solicitor ACTOUT
English city first to last taken with a dance RUMBA
Expert exploring drives left Spain for brutal place JUNGLE
Fancy appearing with a feeble expression! WHIMPER
Feature of plates near chocolate boxes ARCH
Flier's prank LARK
Clues Answers
It's in short close to enthralling cat? NEPETA
Make good writer in rugby programmes initially RECOUP
Musical figure suffers setback in shock coverage HAIRNET
NI party's put back source of chips SPUD
Novelist before turn of year leaves, say GREENERY
Period overseeing fruit mentioned in outdoor assessment? RAINGAUGE
Run into spring haze in game LEAPFROG
Senior side adopting one of four in team SQUADRON
Sing in Western ball forgoing money WARBLE
Some row in English port, maybe WINE
Strongman to be seen on time, or after long wait? ATLAST
Supreme ride for a tough soldier? PARAMOUNT
Trumpeter getting point with seconds to go in competition DAVISCUP
Venial act almost disrupted foreign city VALENCIA
Very prosperous with first of lots invested? BLOOMING
What's hunted endlessly by the Spanish in dispute QUARREL