The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 1,725 - Dec 14 2016

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* mark ultimately grim STARK
A jazz player in short underwear leaves VACATES
At the start of a race, the odds double for dog SPRINGER
Baby son on show SPROG
Backs in Cambridge extra parlous with westerly -- that's a breeze EASY
Club with formidable fringes? IRON
Compound said to define 'carbolic' for a start -- one of these? ACIDS
Cunning spiking little drink MARTINI
Figure capturing certain vision EYESIGHT
Fit Felixstowe and Southampton, say, the wrong way round STROP
Fly, one tucked into bed PILOT
Go for the brown and beat all TAKETHEBISCUIT
Gradually turned on, hit coming up on telly, it is broadcast LITTLEBYLITTLE
Hide talent, leadership unseen LAIR
I cry when in pain, a state IOWA
Impressionist article housed by art museum MANET
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It's suggested untaxed individual working -- would you stand for it? OVATION
Lower part in front fell in the middle BOWEL
M U THOU
Magician -- one securing the action? WARLOCK
Meet vagrant on horse BUMPINTO
More than one wave greets us when at sea GESTURES
Never finished, boy toying with me and daddy OVERMYDEADBODY
Old can opener beyond contemporary NEWGATE
Paraguayan money in a carpet rolled up, touring capital in Asuncion GUARANI
Platform exists behind attorney DAIS
Pooterish man and me to perform role for two PANTOMIMEHORSE
Red mullet's tail taken by rodent that has teeth RATCHET
Strike, something afoot? SOCK
Thin solution, less mass REEDY
Very wet grass around tree SOAKING
Wood in hand PALM