The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 976 - May 9 2013

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Clues Answers
A word from the Beagle, say, as ship? BARQUE
Aim to discuss a looker ASPIRE
Be in cahoots against some of the church CONSPIRE
Chinese food in loose pouches ending in belly CHOPSUEY
Christmas 'caro' with this, did you say? NOEL
Court office unable to act WOODEN
Cut up tough fish PILCHARD
Elasticated items creating bother! KNICKERS
Europeans prove noxious among extremists in Germans GREEKS
First of rockets in space travelling an astronomical distance PARSEC
Get a vessel with cargo of tea emptied ATTAIN
Happen to be sad, every so often, where one temporarily stops breathing APNOEA
Hard-working trader initially calm TIRELESS
Having absorbed phosphorus, I moaned about chemical in the brain DOPAMINE
Heavy trampolinist? BOUNCER
Holiday bay RECESS
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Holly I left, then old flame ILEX
Manage right place for county DORSET
Marine mammal sees dog eating a duck SEAOTTER
Monkey among monkeys, a killer SAKI
North African range viewed from the east MOOR
Nothing in a poet on craft ABOARD
Old Roman officer with air passing round part of the chest TRIBUNE
Parrots, say, cross over the threshold DOORSTEP
State of calm required -- agitated instead, gulping oxygen SEDATION
Stuffy, like this puzzle? SQUARE
Taste in drink good in Canadian city WINNIPEG
Terribly bad sign for some body ABDOMEN
Token to cover in a playful conversation BADINAGE
Vigorous act of corporal punishment SPANKING
Waste card? See about that! SEWAGE
Why one's snoring in bedroom when poorly? BOREDOM