The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 3,212 - Feb 2 2024

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American soldier's holding back Australian female troops AMAZONS
Angry civil riot expressing intense ill-will VITRIOLIC
Approach experts intermittently pairing up? ACCESS
Bill hit pinching skirts of curvy, round old maid TABBYCAT
Brandy receptacle returned by unimportant employee COGNAC
Bring into operation deal, perhaps accepting unknown backing EXERT
Bump off prison guards and abscond from security JUMPBAIL
Capital question announced to which 'No, she walked' is an answer DJAKARTA
Clever defence disheartened newspaper DEFT
Contribution made by home university in past INPUT
David, maybe taking time, ending off suss laws STATUTES
Dingo ultimately hiding in retreat, sore from the bottom up WARRIGAL
Excessive amps smothering piano before Die Fledermaus, say OPERETTA
Fault insulating new plug BUNG
Figure nothing's left in hookah OBLONG
Grill lawyers, bishop and queen BARBQ
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Half of sentences on crux of pithy Apocryphal book JUDITH
Major service provider immediately stops gas ETHENE
Novel sea mammal regularly fished out EMMA
On radio, possibly Old Man River is most sublime GREATEST
Pitched until tedium's set in TILTED
Played radiant prelude intrada
Rescue from scrape that's hard going SAVE
Richer gambler right on track? BETTEROFF
Shout about Republican punch-up BRAWL
Slit got repositioned in vocal opening GLOTTIS
Take away, divide on both sides, carry over, start to total DETRACT
This may give Maria quite a shock MOONQUAKE
US marshal's perfect listening device EARPHONE
Very nearly skinned fish and gutted smelt ALMOST
Volunteers terribly maudlin state TAMILNADU
Whiff of purpose lifting son and mother MIASMA