The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 555 - May 3 2011

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Clues Answers
'Gentleman' owns up, one bowled SAHIB
Acts single embracing tense bird TURNSTONE
Advocate ether for their extraction TEETH
Allow blemish to come first always, after following disease SCARLETFEVER
Animal in river basin, with endless delight HIPPOPOTAMUS
Bears babies accepting bit of epidural TOTES
Bird's undone blouse, topless OUSEL
Bread filling that is empty INANE
Change constitution, member cut off without oxygen LEGISLATE
Content of a note revealed in case of Stones splinter group SATISFACTION
Cryptic compiler's exercise learnt, be cryptic! IMPENETRABLE
Fit, say, with heart taken by darling COMPETENT
Fool fled Church around start of ultimate vow ASSURANCE
General advanced following head of police state's return PREVALENT
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Happier camper? GAYER
Hard cut for cover HEDGE
Kelvin, journalist in charge? Run away! SKEDADDLE
Lasso dominatrix holds in place of depravity SODOM
Most brilliant small time lags inside STARRIEST
One buys almost neat second drink PURCHASER
Pardon former copper, former copper's inside EXCULPATE
Passages that lead up and down SOLOS
Person protecting rhino? MISER
Rights it's wrong to take? LIBERTIES
Shame quietly coming off stage ODIUM
Sitting in garden in sun before day's end SEDENTARY
State of America's well outside America SAMOA
Took temperature in lily garden ARBORETUM