The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 718 - Feb 10 2012

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Clues Answers
... a constant outlay upfront -- government on tenterhooks AGOG
... waste-yard odour regularly borders on mishap DUMP
100% or 75% starkers, performing this? STREAK
Aim for snake, with exasperation ASPIRE
and 19: His 7 is essential charge on International club TAXI
Arms manufacturer's comfortable in retrospect with broadcast fiction GUNSMITH
Barney's turned out to be handy NEARBY
BBC head's departing for free UNTIE
Binding contracts kaput; Teesside ... PUTTEE
Boris cops perfidious snitch PROBOSCIS
Carry off Prince in finest aircraft TwinProp
Dragon races in Elba sadly getting chop BATTLEAXE
Empty ex cathedra injunctions DRAIN
Greek currency soared, we hear, subject to ... LEPTON
Holder's last in group to enter account after break-up OCCUPANT
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Hospital rings chaplain for potent solution HOOCH
Ken Littlehill, we hear, is 'nervous' KNOWLEDGE
Marksman holds up fire -- pin stuck a bit SNIPER
No point in plot for 'C'? TORY
Number one college -- Trinity -- unoccupied UNITY
Rover! Not so daft! NOMAD
Scorer's name announced HANDEL
Seal's resting, head hidden, in rocky situation SIGNET
See 18 DRIVER
Setter's unable to bear hints of lactose used by restaurants as sweetener LUBRICANT
Trail for 'The Sopranos' upsetting -- feverishly hasten to remove SPOOR
Very French way to sin TRESPASS
Vet checking relative's crows VAUNTS
Witticism from upstart male toff BONMOT
Yank in St Paul's briefly, perhaps? WRENCH