The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 2,568 - Jan 1 2021

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A bit of Christmas cheer's unusual around nursery CRECHE
A fall in teaching of old French region LORRAINE
Cart-horse bureaucracy, up to a point? TAPERED
Counteracting unfair treatment, Jolson leaves Ross early 20thC collection EDWARDIANA
Cut a slice of Somerset (or Dorset??) Cheddar ETCHED
Have you just made one on your completed grid? RESOLUTION
In which, fixated by notable date, am I not deluded about love? EROTOMANIA
It's tied up with restrictions of cuisine DIETETICS
Justify what one's done with eggs on the turn? AVOW
Manipulating sort thought a poet's odes retro features OSTEOPATH
Meanly keep mum -- no time to 16! HOGMANAY
More than 50% of the letters above ATOP
Music centre at which ____'s played? ENTRACTE
NZ resident clipped car reversing back over something suspicious TUATARA
Official figures hot parts still rising THEY
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Out-door clothes dope's pressing EXIGENT
Receive news about article made of tanned hide LEATHERN
Received summons notice with some style! RITZY
Shake what took over a day to build right up TREMOR
Slow glacier moving round this is not detected LETHARGIC
Some time, this compiler's beginnings in Hatfield perhaps, looking back STRETCH
Something enchanting from poet in steps of rare praise FAERIE
Take once-a-year drinker out, maybe to the Stars in Ely, getting tiddly LEADASTRAY
The Times unmentioned in Tit-bits flyer IBIS
This Libya-Ireland passage? BYAIR
This man features in weird sleep RHEUM
Time to reject Old Year -- insert this by end of date TWENTYONE
Welcome 20 10, did you say? Enter here to make merry with wine and no end of beer (3,2,3,3,4) SEEINTHENEWYEAR
What's left of energy after twelve, and who's got any? NOONE