The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 999 - Jun 19 2013

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Clues Answers
...'Cut!' -- coming up, 'Kill Bill' POLICE
8 captain briefly could get mad APOPLECTIC
9 EMERGENCY
A little butter and pickle SCRAPE
Aide's informal agreement to settle PAYUP
Bird's display around mating period WHEATEAR
Body monitoring offshore activity on Spooner's phantom Amex? COASTGUARD
Carnivore swallowing boy, one who featured in circus GLADIATOR
Conservatives abandoning both cabinet and sofa fail to maintain lines of communication LOSETOUCH
Defence evidence, perhaps -- adult impulse stopped short of act ALIBI
Get the sack BAG
Government deposed by soldiers in bloody riot ORGY
Having a chance of getting in with gorgeous date being taken out ELECTABLE
He's often seen putting fish starter away ELS
Humiliated and perhaps distressed as a lion fed mouse's tail DEMEANED
It sounds like sic transit gloria mundi's essentially a clue (NB cryptic) AMBULANCE
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Light sack FIRE
Not satisfied, global body held talks UNMET
Overlapping targets for snooker and croquet balls provide chance to shoot PHOTOOP
Remove slight uncertainty in voice WEEDOUT
Row about excuse for not writing, perhaps -- might it get one into a can of worms? TINOPENER
Shorts for children TOTS
So long for Strasbourg to reform EU aid ADIEU
Source of fibre in breakfasts is all-bran SISAL
Source of seafood dish deters boy OYSTERBED
Squalid digs that fellow's found in middle of Exeter for term EPITHET
Start filming... ONSET
Usually nine? MOSTOFTEN
Vessels clog up POTS
Was after teacher caught in act DESIRED
Water renewed hardy tree REHYDRATE
What comes before 'The Fall' in edition put out? ETHERISED