The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 1,736 - Jan 3 2017

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Acknowledgement of order, not the first I received RECEIPT
Always be right in tirade, making noise that echoes around REVERBERANT
Ardent President once giving sign to prophet BURNINGBUSH
Awe-inspiring fortification on island to the north REDOUBTABLE
Ball maybe entertaining any number in the area ZONE
Biblical pop group ABBA
Block to keep water back? That would be mad DAMUP
By no means religious, from what we hear NONE
Carpenter unusually had same experience as cat in London? SAWER
Celebrations in verse? Ways to put maiden off! ODES
Drug cupboard -- guess sailor will go to that BETABLOCKER
Expecting to lose power as monarch REGNANT
Famous expert on cancer offers model DOLL
Indication of illegitimacy given by arbiters troubled about offence BARSINISTER
Kind of box that's kept without its top facing up? CONSIDERATE
Music-maker needs key, nothing extra ALTO
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Mythological female in terrible danger LEDA
Notice dried crumbs -- fatal attraction for mice? RODENTICIDE
One sip's disastrous -- it's spiked! Spinose
Petition for character behind all others in a situation suggesting crisis SUEZ
Port with a lot of cargo left dumped ADEN
Short tunic seen around African city RABAT
Socialist outside restaurant, revolutionary vandal DEFACER
Some exceptional eating -- up will go that weight! TAEL
Stir created by one leaping into crowd SLAMMER
Story covered by English humanist and French dramatist MOLIERE
Swiss company had finally got into a comfortable position NESTLED
The heartless abuse goes round -- it must be suppressed MUTED
This remnant has raised objections STUB
Two lots of soldiers going to party, with loss of concentration RAREFACTION
What is poisonous, completely? Arsenic UPAS
Where travellers may get off and dance around American street BUSSTOP