The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 1,680 - Sep 27 2016

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American needs to mix effectively around communal area STAIRWELL
Beset by pain, I have reduced effect ACHIEVE
Bureaucrats jail drug dealers PENPUSHERS
Did see Conservative agitated CHEATED
Expect a carol singer AWAIT
Gangster's trendy swallowing hard liquor ALCOHOL
Girl in song, fruity type CLEMENTINE
Grassland and what to do with it around end of June taking a day MEADOW
Identify location SPOT
Independent outlaws' domain for novelist ISHERWOOD
Interaction between different communities playing sectarian role RACERELATIONS
Join one more attractive man from Yale perhaps CONNECTICUTER
Lover's exotic meals out SOULMATE
Messes about with flawless cut flower LARKSPUR
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Old Bill's arrested that means to kill NOOSE
Old measure introduced by one making delivery, person to produce changes BELLRINGER
One not out opener for Surrey about to get bowled SCAB
People honoured by Spain carrying great weight OBESE
Poet providing humourless study DRYDEN
Policeman having aversion to American assassin OFFICER
Possibly made stock car to go faster, if this? SOUPEDUP
Saxon king left less desirable pieces of meat OFFAL
Slippery creatures, mostly well-dressed, coming round EELS
Something of a spectacle in French city LENS
Star's power running -- in this? SPORTSWEAR
Top technician arranged drug delivery mechanism NICOTINEPATCH
Who could deliver potent starlet TALENTSPOTTER
Worked in kitchen, being past it WASHEDUP