The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 2,189 - Mar 7 2019

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... rejecting form perhaps with ordinary current leader EDITORIAL
Big equipment, small changes to opening STRAPPING
Blasphemy when rejected upset good in church SACRILEGE
Bowl over trapping hard shot PHOTO
Capital is managed topping advance RANGOON
Charm a Conservative caught by error in end FASCINATE
China acquires revolutionary weapon MACHETE
Drink could make phoney bore heard CHAMPAGNE
Explorer beginning to do search DRAKE
Fix pipe oddly making U-turn in great machine APPLIANCE
Floating on lake is river bird OUSEL
Give pained expression sitting on butt ENDOW
Go abroad missing golf in Dubai? EMIRATE
He, say, last to move pieces in check ELEMENT
Idiosyncrasy going round opposite directions for journey TRANSIT
In secrecy, an idea to give poison CYANIDE
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Initially golfer is mad missing easy, easy putt GIMME
Island summit east, not south CRETE
Notice old boy's always showing resistance to Left OBSERVE
Pens combustible articles about gutless reporter CORRALS
Quibbling first woman carrying credit card that's rejected EVASIVE
Regret seeing ship's stern while capsizing SADNESS
Reportedly first person with spotted blemish EYESORE
Some excess heat heats cover SHEATHE
Square old man's bearing nearly slow PLAZA
Stand controlling strike and catching live rising fish WHITEBAIT
State of India's occasionally almost scorching IDAHO
Stick-up traps idiot MUGGINS
Stomach bug overwhelms powerless wimp MIDRIFF
Stop accepting a student's common PREVALENT
Surreal gag doesn't stop Labour's leader ... STRANGE
Terrible cut bound to get discoloured DIRTIED