The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 1,574 - Mar 24 2016

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Aims and kills ENDS
Amount's first cut accepting reduced payment ALLOWANCE
Boy precedes girl; man, woman: it's in order ALPHABETICAL
By seizing power becomes minister PREACHER
Caught and struck fish, in short, cut guts CHITTERLINGS
Central character from 'Medea'? DELTA
Childhood disorder preceded getting confused ADDLED
Confesses, pale, head to toe ALLOWS
Divine Celia losing heart in woods FORECAST
Embroiders small person's name finally in smalls STITCHES
English learner holding up slate tablet PANEL
Fakes nearly worked in cold lower regions CHARADES
Finishes these things around day after cheating CONCLUDES
Further education? LEARN
Hate to drop off -- no minutes being cuddled? ABOMINATE
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Initially ascend top tread into cold room ATTIC
Lag's offence receiving answer by end of sentence INSULATE
Look at male trapped by work's drudgery TREADMILL
Misery capsized in distress? Send a signal SADNESS
Obstruct knife, catching clasp -- one line is cut BLOCKADE
Oddly, satire eases tension STRESS
Old lady taking in clubs for good crack CRANNY
Old part of fingerprint agency turned up ARCHAIC
Second key almost revealed master key? SKELETON
Single that makes audible advance LONE
Split from diocese about Church getting Germany's support SECEDE
Stayed in elevated hot area, saturated AWASH
Willing adult males on island flipped AMENABLE
With destructive behaviour, idiots emptied rubbish DEBRIS
Your life might be in their hands! TAROT