The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 689 - Dec 22 2011

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A sunnier aspect about Conservative policy INSURANCE
Article written by poet reasonably slowly ANDANTE
Australian pea can make a catholicon PANACEA
Belle has tea by sea in Marseilles CHARMER
Bit of beautiful fabric -- pin it on BLAME
Bravura Italian provides accompaniment at meal RAITA
Can saleroom shift without Mark? AEROSOL
Comrade Brown's very unusual BROTHER
Create an impression with fashionable pattern INGRAIN
Ely got in muddle over suggestion of venue for extended service LONGEVITY
Fifty-fifty where ace is in matches? EVENS
Gathering some crayfish irresponsibly SHIRR
Glimpses those sharing the sauce? GANDERS
Good girls infrequently propositioned thereby? GLASSES
In charge, help set up beam RADIATE
King-sized and regular gear unpacked LARGE
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Leaving river, new charts may keep him on course YACHTSMAN
O for outset? BEGINNING
Polar variation on view in darkness NIGHT
Race to place a substitute bet RELAY
Rested among the trees, say -- like this? SATINWOOD
Saws hum round tops of alder and yew on Square SAYINGS
This ewe or this? This! OTHERWISE
Those at forefront of European manufacturing up in arms with Islamic jurisdiction EMIRATE
Tracker's frozen within Jersey Group POLICEDOG
Tradesman maintaining transparency? GLAZIER
Transportation by means of hovercraft? AIRLIFT
Urge the difference between Welsh and Buck? EGGON
Wesley could be spreading myth about soaring wickedness HYMNIST
Where French and British elite start to torture revolutionary cell OUBLIETTE
Whitewash a mediaeval centre? Reluctant! ASHAMED
Yank's lass turning up behindhand LAGGARD