The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 2,639 - May 6 2021

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Absent-minded (female) artiste I sacked after first bit of dawdling DISTRAITE
Android ran on batteries of tungsten to begin with ROBOT
Characters from the east younger, and with no visible means of support STRAPLESS
Compact shelter placed in midst of scenery ENTENTE
Coventry striker perhaps in shade? SKYBLUE
Crazy bandleader joining the forces BARMY
Dash into fellowship's 'facility' AMENITY
Dim old monarch boarding vacant buggy BLEARY
Dismiss moneyman? CASHIER
Edward having dicky innards fine-tuned TWEAKED
First of engineers in post -- airmen free to take off IMPERSONATE
Got up; assembled sarnie ARISEN
Hanging first of paintings, wind up worker PENDANT
Hazel's bet, reduced by uncertainty, withdrawn FILBERT
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Lee and Al totter drunkenly -- neither being this? TEETOTALLER
Making a (good?) fist of passing over legal document HANDWRITING
Maybe newspapers will break questionable item without delay IMMEDIATE
New Romeo embraced by Trump's ex is paradise! NIRVANA
Pensioner's more scary when upset about tobacconist's closing RETIREE
Poles in boxes SPARS
Prepare to fire volunteer one's seen holding parrot TAKEAIM
See Miss Phillips being heavenly? ELYSIAN
Showing authority with worries mounting during strike MASTERFUL
Slacker and no-hoper accepting Oscar LOOSER
Smash hit from Hammer? BLOCKBUSTER
Sons lie about woman of courage LIONESS
Spain's opening game EVENT
Tsar can earn mostly in secret ARCANE