The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 2,748 - Nov 12 2021

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Clues Answers
Author's cake dipped in tea? Au contraire BUCHAN
Bells of Ireland back in demand CARILLON
Cheap deposit backed with very little money TUPPENNY
Composer by trade, you say? PURCELL
Continue with cliffs just after cutting south CARRYON
Croft girl slicing fish -- think something's odd? SMELLARAT
Dodgy workman evasive about old bishop drinking whiskey COWBOY
For whom workers may make meals ANTEATERS
Free speech semi-ostracises some men CHESSPIECES
Ground zero's hit, pinning western guns HOWITZERS
Hesitate? Barber doesn't begin HAVER
I hunt, following river around eastern French land after backtracking FERRETER
Impressive understanding has moved husband EMPHATIC
Long time before November YEARN
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Maybe Macduff's princess yet to meet her mother-in-law DISTILLER
Possibly wide on the right, not top or bottom EXTRA
Raced topless around Sinai Desert, otherwise walked PEDESTRIANISED
Several monarchs embracing single European change KRONER
Sister's pal picked up unbridled sarcasm MATRON
Somebody regularly heard weasel VIPER
Steep promotion in naval affairs MARINADE
Stern assertion from stag to his mate? BEHIND
Tamper with bones DOCTOR
Tiny baby consumed by gas NEONATE
Visit kitchen regularly and pick dessert ICECREAM
Was part of internet node corrupted when deleting a name ENTEREDINTO
Was unaware of short girl having grown MISAPPRECIATED
Wild in the past, entertaining rising French director AGITATO