The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 854 - Oct 5 2012

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American president recalled in hostage troubles ORTEGA
Apostle almost having passed in and even out PLATEAU
Arousing attraction in the heart (or lower down)? EROTIC
Bush began to be difficult over Obama in the end CAMELLIA
Celtic man rises with bench in revolt NAUSEATE
Do resist mixing drugs STEROIDS
Epic fail on first letter SAGA
Experience in Munich, and hence UNDERGO
I'll go red when heated, as one characteristically hitting high? LOBSTER
I'm pierced, with deformation of skin EPIDERMIC
Ineptly I carve -- not good function of hammer? OVERACTING
It may help to avoid over-coddling one and get infected with germ EGGTIMER
It's macabre holding a cross and putting the feet up CHILLAXING
Ivy League excluded in restrained period HEDERA
Jacobi perhaps dismissing one part as rubbish DREK
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Large string instrument's what I play: it's hard and yellow LIMONCELLO
Leave Alberta as well as Ontario ABANDON
Misunderstanding about rank in married name MONDEGREEN
Mum's graced with singular woman's beauty SMASHER
Naive conjecture surrounds Italian and Spanish articles GUILELESS
One more suited to fight than flight is halting tilt GAMECOCK
Orb following celestial object's wake COMETO
See where Ruth's found rifle LOOT
Some software cyberattack's not hard, splitting memory block PACKAGE
Source of red stains in report of two regular courses BEETROOT
Sporty Spice's 'Goin' Down'? No, somehow it's a climber! CLEMATIS
Time to stop getting into extra loan MORTGAGE
Trench coat's ten times bigger in the front MOAT
Wickedness long since hiding every other craziness ILLOGIC
With time guaranteed, though last of students drops out? TENURED