The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 880 - Nov 21 2012

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Backs section of Chapter in resolution REVERSES
Ceremony put down as lacking weight RITE
Characters appearing here in timeless drama, thus with licence to blunder! RUDEMECHANICALS
Curve ball from Spain undermines good round by amateur PARABOLA
Dregs of rum I used in cocktail RESIDUUM
Engraving of lion -- it shimmers, silver coated INTAGLIO
Even royalty he mentioned in profanity OATH
Existentialist method infiltrates core of writer's redrafts SARTRE
Fibre shown by fliers given brief command RAFFIA
Garbled text about transient joiner? EXTROVERT
Glass pipe FLUTE
Horse and trap starts to generate leftward yaw, with no let-up NAGGINGLY
Ill-defined situation high on the bestsellers list? GREYAREA
Measure of Cognac -- all I perceive! CALLIPER
Mischief-maker in band with outspoken songs RINGLEADER
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Miss Desmond's stays, we hear, given to regiment? NORMALISE
Novice's request turned down in secret INNER
Oil producer has conversation with offspring about ending of allowance RAPESEED
Ontario failing in management of rural region is possibly partisan IRREGULAR
Poles hail saint on square outside STAVES
Poor Auntie's lost her first consort UNITE
Position invention on edge of Ullswater LIEU
Principal concealing institute's missing bag of bones STARVELING
Private room CIA ordered in absentia, causing upset SNUG
Recall slogan: 'British for Staying Power!' BOTTOM
State of chest on a non-smoker beginning to alarm son ARKANSAS
The (sadly lost) technique for preparing fruit QUINCE
Tin's unacceptable for making hooter SNOUT
With this beekeeper's beeper, summoning husband? EKEOUT