The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 835 - Sep 4 2012

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Clues Answers
Amphibian wife's evidently caught? NEWT
As well to translate English for this Antipodean AUSSIE
Author like Oscar Wilde gobbling fish and drink up IRISMURDOCH
Author reads novel about Liberal, penetrating various layers? CHARLESDICKENS
Bird in bar RAIL
Close-run thing featured in glossy, perhaps? PHOTOFINISH
Cope with position STAND
Detailed description better, shortly in range SPECTRUM
Endlessly beat up, finding head or nose? CONK
Finally beyond question, it's a sailing vessel DHOW
Flat blade ultimately going under surface of soil? SPADE
Fortune bringing shame on Nereids, all at sea SERENDIPITY
Fruit -- talk about slightly thick! SLOE
Hard to conceal in the manipulation of words the mark of an illiterate puzzle setter SPHINX
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Header from Millwall breaks top side CAMP
Hearts and Celtic etc provided with strong cigarette? SPLIFF
Knight perfect for sheikhdom DUBAI
Largely appearing in a thick coat? Getting into furs, in essence URSINE
Miss container for debris SKIP
Orange tongue MANDARIN
Order suiting a saint IGNATIUS
Out of sorts, eating unplucked bird? DOWNINTHEMOUTH
People I respect initially getting Saturn mistaken for Jupiter, perhaps? SUPERIORPLANET
Positive abundantly rich? Not entirely! PLUS
Smart trap for a criminal STING
Tree where monkey died TAMARIND
Twenty-cent loans in renegotiating for flat TWODIMENSIONAL
Very slight thing -- never lose faith? STICKINSECT