The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 78 - Jan 15 2009

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A different person pruning old part of plant ANTHER
Annual playing partners upset card game SNAP
Artist shuns photo equipment first to observe film role CAMEO
Before noon, desert reflects body of water TARN
Cat drawn following early painting school (not modern) LYNX
Cookery writer recalled some of course in VIP's company BEETON
Doctors barricade nuclear apparatus near the vault? RINGS
Draw fairy a long way back RAFFLE
Duck requires a garnish primarily - like this? LOVAGE
Eager to divulge name during street shooting SKEET
English town bars making �last orders' earlier STALBANS
Extremely busy, unknown worker in drug Empire BYZANTINE
Grasp part of foot after middle's dropped from chisel CLINCH
Heads for shop in Leeds, taking deposit SILT
Holly's recording, for example, guys exercising in gym PEGGYSUE
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It's a measure of boat's speed that makes granny bow and slip KNOTS
Law protects variable feature of river valley CANYON
Leaving northbound, was sergeant captured? EGRESS
Lie back, after end of digging, with ordinary ice cream GELATO
Little bird spends week on a pound of kidneys RENAL
Racecourse concerned with its event programme, as date moves REDCAR
Rising chilly mist starts to unsettle the sporting contest TUGOFWAR
Safe for tallest of teenagers to meet with thumps on the ear FORTKNOX
Sailing boat boosted betting competition SLOOP
Snapper knocked back a 1/4 pint in course of duty ALLIGATOR
Some of church line up, looking heavenwards, amid wild cheers SEPULCHRE
Woman regularly teaches around educational institution EUNICE
Worn casing of knife's exchanged RAGGED
Writer initially given no employment by Journal, cutting back JKROWLING
Writer of Classic poetry - 'outside in idyll, beneath endless stars' VIRGIL