The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 1,824 - Jun 6 2017

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Act that gets encore -- or the bird DODO
Annoyed Ireland�s lost an away RILED
Bald patch in animal's fur? COAT
Business regularly sets financial value COST
Clay 'chef d'oeuvre' centrally placed in kiln, a bust KAOLIN
Concluding Sunset Blvd is one LAST
Don't allow doctor to employ a locum STOPGAP
Drunken 'Here's to succeed father' that's even more cheeky FRESHER
Fixed pudding when ordered -- no good going out DIDUP
Flight path ESCAPEROUTE
Former partner going inside time after time to use phone? TEXT
Gather, when writing about MASS
Go away, small creature from number 20! SCAT
Half shot, held up class SEMINAR
Happen to know signal? BETOKEN
Having retired, become restless TOSSANDTURN
It's often seen in a hole -- in a little hole TOAD
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Live to gain place in the pop charts? BEGET
Make mistake of getting into row with uniformed man TERRIER
Mean and prepared to fight CLOSEFISTED
Moment mother left, sweet and sugary, was tempting ENTICED
Musical farewell to prison CANTATA
Nobody's into nude swimming these days UNOWNED
Not so fast -- it's not a winner JUSTASECOND
Nothing in it -- a smidgen IOTA
Ozes and rowses? NODS
Planter at bottom of cargo? It might get chipped POTATO
Remedies and puts end to colic. Sure solution CURES
Running mates? FASTFRIENDS
Said 'No, no, it's an instinctive skill' NOSE
See covers lifted SPOT
Slipping away from a bride, be badly in need of drink ARID
Spaniard's cheers after one's spilled over water SODA
Understand, if you pit yourself against management TAKEONBOARD