The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 1,966 - Feb 8 2018

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Amend socialist platform REDRAFT
Attend promotion for bookmaker? BETHERE
Avoid social workers -- they're worn out, going downhill fast SKIPANTS
Baltic resident of guest-house ESTH
Blow �- ! DASH
Carry out charge by number of animals? PERPETRATE
Clawed, small crustacean showed sign of injury SCRABBLED
Country ditching no good runner ELAND
Disreputable soak commandeering daughter's car SKODA
Done in, two beasts of burden eat half of dinner, being shattered ASSASSINATED
Electronic errors, perhaps, in passes ELAPSES
Excited to draw around beginning of December, a turning point HIGHTIDE
Go on the fiddle repeatedly and be ingratiating BOWANDSCRAPE
Grandma, perhaps, drinks litre of liquid PLASMA
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Love former queen welcomes in Society Editor that's fixated OBSESSED
Manipulator of people on half of continent MASSEUR
Member of school of trout swimming TUTOR
Old hand travels northward to either side of land regularly SEADOG
Old man's moves, inappropriately candid and gauche at first DADDANCING
One scouring earth -- see young birds flying round about STEELWOOL
One telling tales gets a question in return AESOP
Plump kind of pigeon working out? FATHOMING
Refuse further exams after finals are switched RESIST
Reports of official mistake likewise curtailed REFERRALS
Rickety plane over India from Kathmandu? NEPALI
Right, plane -- don't bust out of this! HOLDINGPATTERN
Speak out, and continue after former partner flees, upset EXPRESSONESELF
Tops Snow White initially with apples? SWEATERS