The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 3,149 - Oct 17 2023

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Clues Answers
Accommodates, as it were, men in drunken state? STUPOR
Address those present perhaps in troop ship with sea raging APOSTROPHISE
Affluent speculator acquiring East German house REICHSTAG
Ancestor, strait-laced, reversed disintegration Self embodies? PRIMOGENITOR
Androcles at the outset is drawn into big cat relationship LIAISON
Band's number one songs broadcast with operatic work RINGLEADER
Beauty enthralling feeble husband and Republican 27 BELLWETHER
Bug found in green sauce Penny refused ECOLI
Clique outrageously erotic -- bed needs stripping COTERIE
Fabulist initially adopted revolutionary attitude AESOP
Figure cool in tight garment BODICE
Gathering news, driving supporters meet in state TENNESSEE
Highly commend reduction of previous charge? EXTOL
King among monied people with time to reap benefits? HARVEST
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Let out and glad to go topless LEASED
Long to have pressure in tyre at last PINE
My lovely ornamental moulding CORNICE
One going down who might be saved by the bell? DIVER
Phone card returned fitting in pocket MISAPPROPRIATE
Project unfinished: have publicity job with Princess Fiona? WORKINPROGRESS
Red Ken is let loose? Hide! DEERSKIN
Revolting person misrepresented term in EU MUTINEER
Rotten hobnail boot finally chucked in the event BIATHLON
Seller's initial costs having risen not right for seasons SPICESUP
Send back your wicked servant's uniform! LIVERY
Something to sustain enthusiast: old poetry books? NUTRIMENT
Start to eat crackers passed round with this? EDAM
Switch must be installed in jet? Spare no expense SPLASHOUT