The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 185 - Jul 22 2009

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A problem with houses requiring payment of bills SETTLEMENT
Always overdrawn but honoured REVERED
Book having success after footballer's decapitated bank clerk BESTSELLER
Counter for game using just lines MERELL
Cut away part of broadcast (secret) RESECT
Domestic slave seen playing ESNE
Drunken three in service pursue Black Friars BRETHREN
Embarrassment of hereditary element GENE
False refinement of information getting support before Head left GENTEELNESS
Feels deeds to be strange and parthenogenetic, perhaps SELFSEEDED
Garment's dyed, we hear, and taken to the cleaners FLEECED
Gunned priest about the end of the war REVVED
Hardy country for an earl WESSEX
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Head boy would be ideal if second and third changed places PREFECT
Insufficiency of funds finally brings mortgagee to the point SLENDERNESS
Lapel, for example, on European gear REVERSE
Letter with irregular verse accompanies this French fizz EFFERVESCE
Opinionated alien to replace recipe in entr�e ENTETEE
Roe�s spleen MELT
Seamen captured by serial robber SCREWER
Second to former torpedo boat in neighbourhood of Tyne road NEXTBEST
Sensitive termination of plots about English in American state NERVEEND
Shelters the worst parts LEES
Small poem against Irish obstructed in the past VERSELET
Support for hidden spy SLEEPER
Sweet ascent Edmund discovered SCENTED