The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 1,696 - Oct 25 2016

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Around noon, runner loses top to Reliant Robin's inventor MILNE
Award judge leaving force EMMY
Board look back KEEP
Bronte regularly let cast kiss in confined space BOTTLENECK
Capsize visible vessel OVERTURN
City group caught out French designer LALIQUE
During more certain times, ultimately, they provide cover INSURERS
Finished no-good pollsters ALLUP
Gent nearly involved with this crime could be seething HEIST
Hot men drinking rum? Quite the opposite, for the near future SHORTRANGE
Ideal for 11, such could make fathers hers FATFREE
In which trawler endlessly sat at sea? SALTWATER
Left working and working -- it won't stick TEFLON
Like nothing obscure ELLIPTICAL
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Morning Star journalist covers mobile library EARLYBIRD
My poem on the radio, listener OHDEAR
One revered having dropped a knife SHIV
Plant loaned out gutless engineer OLEANDER
Rainy? Cape tour gets rearranged, just in case PRECAUTIONARY
Remain without a leader in enemy uprising? STYE
Run from tramp after more left hostel in a reckless manner EXTRAVAGANTLY
Scotsman fails to start religious group AMISH
See Welsh girl, delightful ELYSIAN
Showing backbone, lay vicar raised fee VERTEBRATE
Somehow acquit pedlar going round university once, then again and again and again QUADRUPLICATE
Stop daughter entering gallery in exciting night out? HOTDATE
Wildest line in Ziggy Stardust's 'Time'? BLOWIEST
You and I wear tight pants outside church -- one wants to be slimmer WEIGHTWATCHER