The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 1,487 - Oct 22 2015

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A little shrub on saikei BONSAI
After raising a fortune, quit STOP
Bird's half naked with thick hair NUTHATCH
Container frigate finally receiving salt's compass location BINNACLE
Control turns to left SWAY
Crosses saved holding up referee ASSESSOR
Endless love of French wear ERODE
Fabulous bird raised slip over eye-opening bodice CORSAGE
Following sailor back, the woman's pretty RATHER
Fugitive time flew, still without length TRANSIENT
Having experience perhaps with time, it's said SEASONED
Help overcoming unending trouble reversing woes SORROWS
Hollow container's almost bare interior CAVERN
Humble sailor's embracing a sweetheart ABASE
It's hell with sun to open parasol SHADE
Jots ideas on tablet, absently scribbling initially IOTAS
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Men, Navy's first unit, loading ball for cannon ORDNANCE
Moby Dick's inner orifices dropping a hard mass WHOLESALE
Official never admits to getting kickback NOTARY
Paroxysm as the advert covers newspaper's name MASTHEAD
Plant yielding more in a paddy? MADDER
Priest's humbug with people sharing Mass SHAMAN
Ramble seeing insides of castle abroad, walled STROLL
Some having ends of chinchilla tails? CATS
Spending capital, we hear, spreading this? LARGESSE
Spy about engineers Bond's boss to finish contract AGREEMENT
Stabs and slices gripping butt of rapier PIERCES
Starts to settle into tempting sofa SITS
Superior's attempt to rise in rank ARROGANT
The French, dear French, by day's end womanising LECHERY
Thought to ring doctor up and rallied HERDED
Title's hereditary lacking a noble origin and finish TERMINATE