The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 2,768 - Dec 17 2021

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Answer politician has a clue about in advance? MEACULPA
Champ owns ring after this? KOING
Crowd disorder engulfs Sandown Park area, so vet called JAMESHERRIOT
Female bust, art form that takes Independent in? Hardly FARFROMIT
Fold up letter so it's demonstrated DUPLE
Going rusty, say, lacking energy needed to produce neat imagery OXIDATION
Good day to express contentment, perversely? Wintry outside: one's not happy! CHIRRUPY
In slices what's making Dracula poorly? GARLIC
In wild rave-up for starters, olive is served with pepper AUPOIVRE
Inexpertly arranged trip abroad exported volatile liquid XYLENE
Knotted at the front and behind, an Arab's long tunic KAFTAN
Not a thing you'll see in old Italian finance department LOIRE
Notice uninitiated character threatening farmers YEOMEN
Out they stick butt, saucily, with cheek! BUCKTEETH
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Reclaimed land primate abandons to find shade? ESCHEAT
Rockers, off and on, earn on new furniture style QUEENANNE
Single lovelorn writer needs the drink to forget NEPENTHE
Sneak's just one -- but there's another in cahoots and a third in custody SYLLABLE
Stash you ultimately gamble UPLAY
Support two terms for Trump, not before time TPLATE
Tie (another) gag around the old girl REMATCH
Unwell, perhaps? Yes, rather! ILLSAY
Very restricted by shoddy relay, we stop in Scotland's capital WAVERLEY
Vessel's strategy in ruins with 50 per cent reduction of oxygen PLANTPOT
What comprises about twelve in number, east to west? ZODIAC
What disappointed examinee may do? Note appears in front of me QUESTIONMARK
With blood vessels in evidence, heart's a-flutter VEINED
Worker no longer including 'unreal' ale in price HONEYBEE