The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 1,145 - Feb 28 2014

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... but old mate in Communist Party chose last time EXCEPT
All metrification, if a later muddling is ignored, could be in one poet's style MILTONIC
Alternately false/true: then smart (with some self-interest?) ASTUTE
Article in broadsheet on cast with play touring isle 'such ... as dreams are made on' FANTASTIC
Dawn French for one is in short superlative SUNUP
Devo plus -- extra moves for Scotland to be thus? OVERTAXED
Dimmer switch's left on ... turn down SLOWER
Dominicans' instruction? ORDER
East German stood for office in US clutching Colorado voting tablet ... OSTRACON
Exhausted? S-shut up! SPENT
Failing to see new elevated purpose in heaven BLINDNESS
Falling short of contract or promise to marry when penny is 7 LIGHT
Fans of Morecambe probably do this too LIKEWISE
Father's quatrain scheme ABBA
Foot -- a name associated with eccentric leader in a bygone age ANAPAEST
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Greek articles about what makes Great Britain UK ATHENIAN
Halfpenny: Welsh character who's busy chasing Scots' ball BAWBEE
In Scots' eyes Adam's second garden EDEN
Ingenious outcome of air.org ADROIT
Keep turning up insignia Territorials will hide RETAIN
Labour leader speaking of reverses in branch meeting NODE
On street beside square most experienced truckers pull over here RESTSTOP
Rare service misread, I agree, at first wide WAITERAGE
Recovered and after mounting left in V&A to be framed by French artist SALVAGED
Report 7 June 1944 perhaps and remedy English obsession? IDEEFIXE
Self-centred say nothing first about following current line EGOISTICAL
Some define Edinburgh as a destitute state NEED
Thinking again of a sonnet I record with independent bent RECONSIDERATION
Using verb endings in Latin I formed imperfect tense NAILBITING