The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 1,726 - Dec 15 2016

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Clues Answers
Alternative responses in recess NOOK
Bearing East, group put back allowance TOLERATION
Beefcake in establishment for Arabs? STUD
Before term, term one rising ahead of others EARLYBIRD
Boss and I recently restricted in cramped accommodation? STUDIOFLAT
Bring home reportedly drink dispenser? URN
Caribbean female losing a day exhibiting craft WILY
Criticise when son leaves behind schedule LATE
Direct but not posh French writer GIDE
Disallow piece of music in watering hole BAR
Fan in county starved of new support DEVOTEE
Figure in company traditionally TWO
Flavouring in chips at ground I love PISTACHIO
Footballer's mate with note after note scrawled in carriage WAGONETTE
Fraudulent part of meal with no set cooking DISHONEST
Go for a thing in pot, we hear ASSAULT
Clues Answers
Jogger set option to run round end of street POSTITNOTE
Left halfway through really good work SLOG
Means to stop reproducing bargain SNIP
Object of devotion universally adopted is flower? AMARYLLIS
One taking interest stealing power? USURPER
Pub backed single chaps facing area events PHENOMENA
Pull oneself up almost narrow opening CHIN
Question in audience for inventor WATT
Rapid movement between points a feature of badminton SHUTTLE
Ready facility medic with a following's shown in public OVERDRAFT
Retired character once among religiously dutiful poor PENURIOUS
Someone not agreeing with much of caper ANTI
Spun element in narrative YARN
Trace source of anxiety in academic gathering-place SCAR
Weird phone chat around Spain at basement rate? ONTHECHEAP
Zip funnily trousers NIL