The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 271 - Dec 18 2009

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After golf what's next? Gleneagles? HOTEL
Buffoon with hook nose could be swimming up Loch Linnhe PUNCHINELLO
Chile offended Turkish ambassador ELCHI
Cover�s beginning when it�s gone AWNING
Criminal steals gold plate TASSEL
Discerning parental guidance about Internet surfing with adult content PENETRATING
Emirate? Name one -- one suffices DUBAI
Even reduction of feet in yard is fractional TINY
Fussy if stalling cows FIKY
Herbivore in book that�s all about the home BEHEMOTH
Here's exotic Ayesha, the Queen that's pure SHEER
Hostile soldiers you once would hold up ENEMY
Ideas you don�t want advanced; this is probably the 13th IDES
In a castle party reel can, birling with increasing speed ACCELERANDO
Men at work should have right to ignore soft speaker ORATOR
Mickey�s beloved mother MINNIE
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One who came out came without I see being excluded DEBARRED
One who decorates with gold isn't meant to be extravagant ORNAMENTIST
Pen store at college COOPUP
Person in irons perhaps or vice versa PRISONER
Pot did (or not) for stewing kangaroo DIPROTODONT
Really I have to be useless INEFFECTIVE
Recognising inflexion of verb too is a noun OBSERVATION
Roll is kept by junior officer LIST
Rough men worried about doing not well where they may do better NURSINGHOME
Songbird -- Catullus' bird -- gets a thousand MAVIS
Stick had broken before ADHERE
Streakers are unceremoniously removed for a run like this STARKERS
The street for news of all events. Every second counts FLEET
Tops of knees indicate length tailors suggest for them KILTS
With day to glance round this island, pass slowly DRAGBY
Worthless talk from fellows cutting hair PIFFLE