The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 16 - May 15 2022

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Clues Answers
'Hop it,' I fulminated, putting in 'sorry!' PITIFUL
Attendees not as drunk as closer relations DETENTE
Bleak before following street paved with gold AUSTERE
Caught twice holding grass, all imported by mum in score SCRATCH
Clash, second-rate outfit playing Liverpool for instance MISMATCH
Deposit with investment returns already ASITIS
Dignitary giving service in times past? On the contrary MAYORESS
Do some decorating work -- note time to go and time to stay CROCHET
Drill making that woman's revolutionary listening aids echo REHEARSE
Figure to get hack's sound support, first to last EIGHTEEN
Green duck trapped by local copper INNOCENT
Hear of record number seeing solo tango LISTEN
London area vehicle's piercing alarm SCARE
Old Scottish character with a lot of neck, unreliably sighted LOCHNESSMONSTER
One rides wave on a current, rising CANOE
Clues Answers
Plugs damage beer barrel with metal inside MARKETING
Pop that sounds less accessible for driving to? FATHER
Really a popular time for regular broadcast SOAPOPERA
Regret consuming Double Diamonds with Romeo -- one's usually in stern control RUDDER
Repeatedly secure personal ornament TIEPIN
Representation of Monet getting born and put in grave ENTOMB
Rip-off getting uniform for nothing -- it's liable to be bent RUBBERY
Slogan about husband and wife drawn in toward breaking up WATCHWORD
Turkey's peak linked to, say, Persian area tunnel CATACOMB
Warren seen in bar, thinly disguised LABYRINTH
While cutting old rocker's quiff may appear thus GREASY
Winter event in sierra -- promptly take a tumble SNOWFALL
Worked backwards, 101 to 100 ... after retiring, it could put you to sleep NARCOTIC
Writer needs line after US VP cut one PENCIL