The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 160 - Jun 9 2009

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A woman will account for varnish SHELLAC
Abandoned, once forty, nice sweet things CONFECTIONERY
Cultivated exotics get on reasonably well COEXIST
Dry up in company of the Queen WITHER
Exhibit western epic shot in Oxford, say SHOWPIECE
Fail to impress, appealing to receive base coin CUTNOICE
Fare that's stranded in rank past eight SPAGHETTI
Flying away from settlement? UPINTHEAIR
How Wise Men interpreted star attribute ASSIGN
I have out-of-this-world travel expense consuming my French gold COSMONAUT
Insist upon a lock-up ASSERT
Means of getting around central London, perhaps essential for cyclists under pressure? INNERTUBE
Minister outwardly admits lapse that is less sober MERRIER
Obstruction of light work by a financial district OPACITY
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One dispenses with standard measures to elect one conservative OPTIC
Paving prepared with edges of iroko PATIO
Piece of apparatus known for sharp projection TUSK
Police officer, for example, turned up holding complete weapon GENDARME
Post-nuclear effect involving airborne fungal spores? MUSHROOMCLOUD
Protest against new fiend DEMON
Purple swelling with base coming to head PLUM
React badly with nannies perhaps wrapping heavy clothing GREATCOATS
Religious instruction niche in church had turned to hopelessness DESPAIR
Suspicious about the thing producing generous impulse CHARITY
Tree from the ends of the earth with soft interior POPLAR
Truce remains partially withdrawn - come again? RECUR
Unassailable as one leaves sarcastic youth? IRONCLAD
What might guy I served with tart leave (if he liked it)? GRATUITY