The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 1,555 - Feb 19 2016

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Accepted by faction I have to embrace otherwise I might be a mole INSECTIVORE
Adaptation of insect to air? I'll deny it CREATIONIST
Bad options are hiding a vexing subject SOREPOINT
Badly tailored suits including one worn by tricky entertainer ILLUSIONIST
Banker entering African country: I'm doubtful he likes live music CONCERTGOER
Church music record involving extended play's sent heavenward GOSPEL
Couturier turns in glowing piece with variable decorative stitching EMBROIDERY
Deepen nod, somehow inviting any response OPENENDED
Difficulty over Parisian water agency BUREAU
Dire note in brass instrument to meet our needs? HORRENDOUS
Dylan suite remixed without consistency? UNSTEADILY
Fashion to knock off reverses tedium BOREDOM
First person caught leaving intimate, insincere statements IRONY
Fleshy feature of judge, member of parliament JOWL
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Get wine round to eat lentil dish, a spicy one VINDALOO
I may obsess over stats and not area covered by Alaska ANORAK
Inclination to skip inauguration of President Bush SLOE
Introduce rule enforcer, breaking step PREFACE
No such booze would repel a petrifying monster GROG
Nothing new in arch needing a brush-up? SLOVENLY
Pale green fruit with no core left BERYL
Scottish island Eigg stripped after trouble with bones AILSACRAIG
Set up plan to guard pine arboretum's first tree MAGNOLIA
Strong odour problem returns before week's end MUSK
Subject of medical research yet to have host almost replacing heart STEMCELL
Take advantage of some fires I lit up in revolution UTILISE
What's to follow, assuming sedentary period? OBESITY
With you and me for the last couple, light on one's feet -- or round one's head? NIMBUS