The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 1,015 - Jul 17 2013

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Clues Answers
Banish pet biting bishop DEBAR
Birth control instruction? You cannot be serious! NOKIDDING
Blade I push into monarch, one less battle, ultimately KNIFEEDGE
Child I kept in outbuilding BAIRN
Contract made verbally, great thing TITAN
Copper gets to marry babe CUTIE
Drink finished, Queen off to see ballet company KIROV
Driver of vehicle possibly needing oil, not oxygen, see? DIESELENGINE
Failing school's closure put before part of the church LAPSE
Is an imperfect gymnastics score so indefensible? UNTENABLE
Is heel turned over to reveal bones in the foot? TARSI
On your bike, left to tuck in bottom, hurried away SCRAMBLED
Over river, I shoot to bag a duck, getting old lizard IGUANODON
Pass through centre in French city, northbound, making mark SEMICOLON
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Pay for truck, Greek character broke for a start PICKUPTHETAB
Plug I use with clip, desperate to cover opening in bath PUBLICISE
Publicly quiet word with press having failed to hide a woman's secret? STAGEWHISPER
Relaxed while in river, doing a backflip EASED
Religious practice under secular leader, devout SPIRITUAL
Romance turns up at port EILAT
Server requiring skill to break knee, perhaps BARTENDER
So the mare getting cooked? HORSEMEAT
Something piped here in Europe, no good ICING
Thick, black and dry BRAINLESS
Tip up rubbish bin on island, initially into hole POURBOIRE
Top knot in view ANGLE
Turkish confection, 3/8 given to Virginia HALVA
Venus of the cosmos? MISSUNIVERSE