The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 97 - Dec 3 2023

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Clues Answers
Agitation of whistleblower turning workers tense FERMENT
Artful when packaging large pottery DELFT
Book with e.g. poetry kid associated with Homer BART
Clothing store's clothing filling the box up VEST
Copper seizing stolen garment from Asia DHOTI
Crooked cheat smuggling too many drugs in part of cell? CATHODE
Endlessly slow Parisian is fatter than the others LARGEST
Fiance follows sister accepting work that isn't supposed to amuse NOPUNINTENDED
Hollywood celeb not in shot after parting remark TARANTINO
Hot after moving around carefully THOROUGHLY
Letters from abroad satisfy revolutionary ETAS
Maybe twenty winks before noon, or fewer than that? HALFADOZEN
Minister has this drink, needing loo if bursting PORTFOLIO
More corpulent bishop I introduced to King Edward? TUBBIER
Muses, perhaps, during meditation in east NINE
Clues Answers
Nurse hands round peeled fig or bit of grape plant, say TENDRIL
Receving poor remuneration, lumberjack's work generates sympathy FELLOWFEELING
Relish drinking vermouth, case of grenadine and one German spirit ZEITGEIST
Repeatedly running round Italy? It might make you cry ONION
Show audacity -- hear setter put on weight TRYITON
Somewhat disheartened accountant getting sack ATRIFLE
Son is going to drink heartily SWILL
Spectacles in fair ground? There's singing about it VARIFOCALS
Spooner's put red meat in herbal seasoning BAYLEAF
Stage entertainment long before debut of opera PANTO
Story in vacuous action or sci-fi film ALIEN
Support for guy, figure with back in torment and leg TENTPEG
Terrorise legless reveller ROISTERER
Twain book about sailor on whiskey TWOSOME
What Jim Morrison did entrances FRONTDOORS