The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 3,100 - Jul 21 2023

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Actress mainly crows over Oscar GARBO
Article, verb and pronoun finish off grammatical block ANVIL
Bag English beef GRIPE
Buffoon runs into robust issue, one of many? HARLEQUIN
Building up NHS? Yes, it's struggling SYNTHESIS
Current in fuse applied to keep going SOLDIERON
Delivered whisky for European admin centre HAGUE
Drink in casual milieu with Jack inside church LIMEJUICE
Drives away mules, perhaps in pick-up SHOOS
Everlasting bearing evenly coated in lead-free alloy ETERNAL
Gang in bars -- might they check consumption of coke? SCREWTOPS
I relish digesting volume one on your American and Russian news IZVESTIYA
In draughts, maybe peg's secured bloomers? ALPINES
Literally excites a character in part SERIF
Lively jester, OAP, deteriorates PEJORATES
Necessary list includes a thousand on board SHEKELS
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Official concerned with overseeing First Lady REEVE
One who sticks with meagre food having swapped sides GLUER
Papacy's unknown saint beginning to engage in breach HOLYSEE
Perhaps fixes Head of Intelligence in thought, affording protection in trap GUMSHIELD
Permit loan to be set up? I don't know BUSPASS
Plant destruction by insect BUGLOSS
PM I see suppressing nonsense ASQUITH
Shell ban by Israel, seething ABOIL
Snitch about international racket NOISE
Strikes again disrupted teachers around 3rd of December RECATCHES
Subdue, in the capacity of mum QUASH
Thrash about, needing energy food CREAMCAKE
Totalitarian state briefly incorrect about charging a new criminal ORWELLIAN
Unexpectedly scans one with a sound resemblance? ASSONANCE
Vote in a fellow King, maybe AXMAN
Wild about United dropping one in league FEDERAL