The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 900 - Dec 27 2012

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A meal for some, at the counter I express hesitation BARIUM
Allow to scold about the French TOLERATE
American volume at institute for the learned LITERATI
Criticise a mother's hat PANAMA
Distant object; it's not worth much FARTHING
Elaborately decorated ship with nothing on board BAROQUE
Expect a singer AWAIT
Expression of surprise about a boy's illness MALADY
Game that's a mere nothing BAGATELLE
Heathen in Italy was devilish musician PAGANINI
Informed about jazz, danced tango for 50p perhaps HEPTAGON
Joker gets sack in middle of bank HOAXER
Judge one who used to dig over acre EXAMINER
Like a transvestite, perhaps, having desire to live in Gulf state? On the contrary WOMANISH
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Ordering by letter a replacement for hot, able pianist ALPHABETISATION
Play made in one scholarly world ACADEME
Polish river having pleasing view over frontiers of Ukraine and Lithuania VISTULA
Pop group ebbing and flowing but not dead, and relating to Westminster for example ABBATIAL
Priest to thrash male civil servant PLACEMAN
Repeat mass instruction to depart with speed ITERATE
Return of Paris maybe cut short names relating to meanings of words SEMANTIC
Same again!? Catch red herring perhaps with no article or gizmo? DONGLE
Socialist worker is a crawler REDANT
Support letter to gangster relating to arm BRACHIAL
The thanks one gets for a letter THETA
Travelling international money takes an age to reach National Trust ITINERANT
What in my French book is a fairy monarch? QUEENMAB