The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 3,057 - May 9 2023

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Clues Answers
Better run, inhaling oxygen in the fresh air OUTDOOR
Big serpent in flowery bushes up to the middle HYDRA
Church reluctant to store half of priest's old shroud CERECLOTH
Communicates with setter, cracking e.g. Elgar and Dada minus one answer LIAISES
Decorative tile son fixed up over time TESSERA
Female member of police personnel DISTAFF
Game 3s play with Italy -- sense it's very costly RUINOUS
Hero's beloved Portia ultimately stops Shylock LEANDER
Idiot over the pond making chit-chat half-cut SCHMO
Inherit income -- investing pound, start to produce results COMEINTOPLAY
International sportsman bowled between well and fine SPRINGBOK
It gave us chutzpah when hobby's rejected by looker YIDDISH
It may hold crude pig, perhaps, receiving large cheers OILTANKER
Joker I caught, holding ace of hearts CARDIAC
Clues Answers
King's wife going around east in cutter PARER
Old composer knowing about a modern one BACHARACH
One puts you under the sea, moving in opposing way ANAESTHETIST
Peer hard through windows? It's a source of drama ARISTOPHANES
Proper person wanting a turnip in a stew PURITAN
Radical failed to secure new stronghold for the Reds ANFIELD
Retailer cut supply in workspace ATELIER
Sculptor in article found in Bild holding soft stone base EPSTEIN
Stirs drinks after leaving clubs AROUSES
Strength enlivens revolutionary saving energy STAMINA
Switch positions, about to return for sale ONOFFER
That place gracious ex-president tours officially FORTHERECORD
Twirling chanteuse is suavely entertaining Victorians? AUSSIES
Went carefully like this into room facing west NOSED