The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 1,810 - May 11 2017

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Authority of vacuous older academic and laureate ORACLE
Bird stripped in publication's English fantasy MIRAGE
Bond snatching a kiss for fun RELAXATION
Brains of university lecturer catching fire? Not quite! RINGLEADER
Call about to turn sour ACETIC
Check head of government's out of power REIN
Farmer in outbuilding pens sheep MERINO
Former boyfriend's reportedly more blubbery covering EXTERIOR
Genuine old gear nearly completely 'post-fashionable' ORIGINAL
Incentive to fix corrosion on motor CARROT
Inconsistent sleeper wraps up too much SPOTTY
Insect against being consumed by completely heartless missus? MANTIS
Make extremely nasty advances, creating edginess initially MENACE
Male model uncovered rising bias NEPOTISM
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New chap almost sweet about purchasing Old Spice CINNAMON
Orator with endless boast keeping cool CICERO
Possibly drill bit tackles resistance PIERCE
Prompt betting on middle of course SPUR
Raised in Kiev, also, guy's former national YUGOSLAV
Ship's crew to pillage revealing kind of bottle SCREWTOP
Snake trailing Queen produces unpleasant noise RASP
Stabs organ over extremities, gutted LUNGES
Standard leader's abandoned when following the French language PARLANCE
Stop air unevenly producing lift SOAR
Suited to wit, nun's last to enter nunnery CONVENIENT
Supporter's over grass -- one goes to top referee ARBITRATOR
Tense, the compiler flipped, quietly spoken and profane TEMPORAL
Transported over island BORNEO