The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 2,637 - May 4 2021

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Bite-sized food partly makes us hiccup SUSHI
Bitter and excellent case of beer on the counter ACERB
Cheese is fine to get gobbled up FETA
Corrupt, gutless duke accepts being rebuffed DEFILE
Crab meat is served over one type of grain BASMATIRICE
Dancing until dark UNLIT
Decide not to take part in work with unscrupulous seller OPTOUT
Detailed bill and letter from overseas CHI
Drills and cuts round base end of pillar EXERCISES
Drug aiming to eliminate the onset of gout ASPIRIN
Education centre supported by variable software system UNIX
Essentially skilled in ABCs, kid somehow reverted to making mistakes BACKSLID
Extra meeting with manager is up in the air OVERHEAD
Felt frequently unwell, thrashing about FLAILING
Great, extremely labyrinthine story FABLE
Help for creating CV on a computer? SHIFTKEY
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I do various moves holding power weights AVOIRDUPOIS
I wait for minutes in the same place IBIDEM
I'm past the final stage? IMAGO
In America, say, chief journalist is retiring STATESIDE
Ordinary, unfinished abstract works OPART
Oriole regularly produces eggs ROE
Partner joins old singer somewhere in California PALOALTO
Pasta is to come down in price FARFALLE
Plot next to street incorporating independent living accommodation BEDSIT
Rejection of some teeny donations is unlikely to cause offence ANODYNE
Revolutionary insurrection after a strike -- it's a shambles ABATTOIR
Sailors had reportedly run off ABSCOND
Shot of pool featuring occasional touches of this artist MATISSE
Stubborn, small pet STIFF
They sell booze and repackaged TV dinners (unopened) VINTNERS
Where you may use a gun scope RANGE