The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 1,027 - Aug 7 2013

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A number contacted journalist after Marathon character became fast TAUTENED
Acquire shelter, overlapping grave EARNEST
Broadcast by virtuous man to raise aid for some OAPs? STAIRLIFT
Cooler restaurants serve wine with this? ICEBUCKET
Cut part of hospital sleeping area in Greece? Nothing odd there ENTRECOTE
Daughter's absorbed by finest and 'ighest piece of furniture BEDSTEAD
Early bird endlessly taps tree LARCH
Faceless pin-up covering end of dormitory's an aphrodisiac? OYSTER
Fill up here, as puppy maybe lost wandering into allotment PETROLSTATION
Groaning backmarkers coming in look weary after swimming race CREAKY
Hoarder keeps castle in noble line SQUIRREL
It's time you texted latest from weather forecast AUGUR
Lascivious part of Switzerland, with clubs overrun by women WANTON
Lecture excited 27 ORATE
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Messenger leaving earliest around periphery of Melbourne, a city in Oz EMERALD
Opener gets duck facing spin PRELUDE
Physician's fashionable bit of surgery restored chests HIPPOCRATES
Plant unknown in mist that means nothing FOXGLOVE
Poet's inspiration from many years outside in Tresco ERATO
Position of drunkard at pub? A fixture near the vault perhaps HORIZONTALBAR
Prickly thing welcome in lively dance ECHIDNA
Second religious lesson college held in spring REJECT
Sucker left in fish sample Clodpoll
Void that is engulfing elderly relative INANE
With shrewdness for example, see beneath Egyptian king ASTUTELY
Women are to vote by the nineteenth? AMENDMENT
Worked up at centre in Leeds after tax HQ, being contracted IRATE
Worker Charlie goes into grand Edwardian dresser for such a pullover? HANDKNITTED