The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 2,161 - Jan 17 2019

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& 14 Down Wrapping it up in fancy plastic paper is what'll help make present perfect PAST
& 25 Down Promoted team relegated -- it should be more fruitful in lower division! UPSIDEDOWN
Agatha Christie detective (not the Francophone) turned over carriage PRAM
Ancient language featuring sacred syllable that's swallowed, perhaps of Attic origin? HOMEBREW
Attempt to acquire information that'll be needed to get engine going BIGEND
Breeder supplying mock croc, auditors find? On the contrary! propagator
Considering rearrest? DELIBERATION
Deceive mobster over the counter HOODWINK
Element opposing energy being extracted from tin ANTIMONY
Fixing what pirate perhaps gained and lost? HOOKANDEYE
Group engaged in mechanical recitation as sign of support for party ROSETTE
House journal's difficult to find answer in HANSARD
Mean adult becoming old? Too much so! OVERAGE
Most unctuous way to attract attention, with art deceiving? OILIEST
Ordering a stiffener containing gin that's dropped in ALIGNING
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Painting, one bound to lift company FRESCO
Paste that's watery, and a filling one TAHINI
Queen informally to sanction ditching pound BESS
Racegoing odds are cut in long term AEON
Rude man is upsetting female carer NURSEMAID
Section of church to lose faith when liberal's removed APSE
See 1 Down PARTICIPLE
See 8 Down CAKE
Sharks can be seen on this, in bid to make one part with money SALESPITCH
Star is paid, incorrectly, for something normally developed in-house? ASPIDISTRA
Time and space traveller brought back non-meat protein TOFU
Tory federation admitting slip held consultation CONFERRED
Transport that power-steers? The other way round! OXCART
Wandering sailor, transported, had objection ABSENTMINDED
Whirlwind romance's ending -- yen goes after two days EDDY