The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 1,678 - Sep 22 2016

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'Eve', the most recent song ... YESTERDAY
... I croon to the audience, putting a coat on ICING
AC/DC power in a CV BIODATA
Alumnus is embraced by old tenor musician OBOIST
Chap returned with drugs for celebrities NAMES
Check dropping temperature in car AUDI
Composer in hock upheld the French Right MAHLER
Contract concerning space held by representative AGREEMENT
Dance that could fire Sergeant for example FLAMENCO
Difficult dance is tactic to win HARDBALL
Dumb queen hugs popular revolutionary MUTINEER
European having drunk claret first: Alice's well content TREACLE
Ill but not out, just rough OFSORTS
Month alien joined musical group? OCTET
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One or a couple? ITEM
Part of a rifle is an example of 9 BAYONETSOCKET
Perfect criminal to add accomplice CONSUMMATE
Rent is almost clear for crying out loud TEARFUL
Sculptor's capital in Italy BERNINI
Small parts arrived with large CAMEOS
Splattered blood (unknown in black and white) is serious setback BODYBLOW
Stab unpleasant person going back east KNIFE
Such a novel could produce pence in miserable royalties EPISTOLARY
Temp gets caught going out around America, typically ASUSUAL
Time to enter freestyle fighting list for these fixtures LIGHTFITTINGS
Turn two-thirds of pancakes on stove -- it's a frightful sight HOBGOBLIN
Welcoming writer in row by sea OPENARMED
Woodman found fish in river? On the contrary SAWYER