The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 76 - Jul 9 2023

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Bird food left on loose stones SCREECHOWL
Black or blue seam unkempt, tatty at the edges SMUTTY
Blunt VIP meeting king STARK
Challenge representative after one shot gun IMPUGN
Drug squad's first head has major item for PC ESCAPEKEY
Footballers succeeded in stadium close to capital ARSENAL
Go off in southern land -- rider may bring this along SADDLEBAG
Gold bar packaging to protect against loss AUTOSAVE
Half hour absorbed by request to keep reading still PHOTO
Husband, getting on during illness, is resisting HOLDINGOUT
Instrument in Cats TOMTOM
Large group's sorrowful feeling crossing large river PLURALITY
Maybe Eisenhower's daughter dated human being DWIGHT
Not upright, one way or another? LYING
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Plaits I twisted around girl's head? PIGTAILS
Quickly do some work with a meat cleaver? CHOPCHOP
Revolutionary caste's middle class members making errors SLIPUPS
Right scoundrel follows copper, arrested by one ACCURATE
Rubbish couple of teachers from down under DEBRIS
Scotswoman, half-cut one from Jura, perhaps ISLA
Small vehicle, one not supposed to be working SCAB
Theatre sign for bailiffs REPOMEN
Travelling in America over less important route ABROAD
Turning up as well, fool consumes starter of beef Wellington GUMBOOT
Twice bail criminal making a sound when speaking BILABIAL
Units showing strength in field or desert so deployed OERSTEDS
What 9, 10, 11, 15, 17, 25, 26, 27 Across and 1, 3 Down do for means of defence GUARDDOGS
What runners do, going straight LEGIT