The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 677 - Dec 1 2011

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After snide remark in pub see worker in high dudgeon INDIGNANT
Author not in the 'in' team FIELDING
Beat the heartless lads up cruelly PULSATED
Characters in garden about to meet English bigwig GRANDEE
Circle somehow can't go into figure with straight sides OCTAGON
Coming out with new regimen -- grams reduced EMERGING
Constable from old country brought into Ulster city DOGBERRY
Crossword finished? Eight letters missing here and there -- I'm at sea! SWORDFISH
Delight in one being released by liberator SAVOUR
Dull time before formal ceremony TRITE
Emotional cases proving to be burdensome? BAGGAGE
Fighting force getting forward into hazard -- I wouldn't mind that? WARMONGER
Give immunity to Conservative oldie losing it tragically CLEAR
Greek academic with stifled expression looking back DORIAN
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He and I will certainly contribute to it PERIODICTABLE
In diplomacy Italy must be understood TACIT
Just bank on yours truly MERELY
Lacking school uniform (and worse!), daughter is kept in by group of teachers NUDIST
Modern culture born to accommodate comedian NEWAGE
Newspaper (not Independent) has phone interception, taking chances Daringly
One going around with big speakers? GHETTOBLASTER
Singer giving a sign that something has to go ADELE
Sort of parasite damaging to red meat TREMATODE
Unsettled? Has change of heart, becoming carefree UNINHIBITED
What's put down in a sequence of letters for Spooner to join SPOTWELD
When given coaching, a learner is using sixth sense INTUITIONAL
Wife of despot? One is 'without seed' SULTANA
Wild rumour Mirror's leader's quashed STORMY