The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 86 - Sep 17 2023

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18 performers sent to Coventry in style CREWCUT
Alarm could make you run, even in a mix-up UNNERVE
Analysis that may require analysis BREAKDOWN
Annual rut relocated far from common UNNATURAL
Apartment with iron twice left on didn't catch fire FELLFLAT
Brief is to overturn European armistice TRUCE
Cancel key atomic meeting behind rocket ESCALATE
Company getting alternative singles together? INDIE
Crude hearing aid, your old style EARTHY
Drove past it, in case? PACKAGED
Five taking a dip around dawn ADVENT
Former Soviet bloc citizen police eavesdropped on CZECH
Go beyond romantic proposition with young man needing love PASSBY
Manoeuvre that could make Wes sew? THREEPOINTTURN
More unfriendly here in France -- here, where outsiders are ignored ICIER
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Most restrained yawns at the end of exam SOFTEST
Nurse with no uniform leading sir round hospital NOURISH
Parents meeting date, maybe zero salary will secure break-up OPENDAY
Pointless, like one plus ten minus one? ASININE
Romeo tragically frees Juliet, perhaps this offers revival REFRESHER
Seasonal work assignment for the water board? SPRINGCLEANING
Seen above France, fighter that drops bit of aircraft oil PARAFFIN
Set out with date to frolic -- coax to be cuddled ATTEMPTED
Shed I'm sitting in for a stint SCRIMP
Signature oddly omitted over preface INTRO
Slot machine in pub offered to reward this person PAYPHONE
Small group at heart of revolutionary plan -- I'm one NOMINAL
Some clue I'd anguished over for so long ADIEU
Spinning on the deck, dance music HORNPIPE
Vacillating about replacing one bodily adornment FRECKLE