The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 2,154 - Jan 4 2019

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About time the best should stop efforts to see horny old beasts Triceratopses
American force in tatters, so rope deployed STATETROOPERS
Assistant nurse's last to enter hospital chapel site in turn HELPMEET
Bang on 24, for example REPORT
Buffoon in contact with six-footer having correspondence ASSONANT
Children's writer rebuffed the northern Norwegian one NESBIT
Copper part of turret's erratically rotating ARRESTER
Erstwhile home of Biggs and Orbison, off and on RIO
Female on farm following zigzag path? EWE
Fury of possibly bitter chief technical officer ALECTO
Hardly anyone said that's a relief FEW
Having rooms on the house torn away? RENTFREE
Impede recall of alkalinity measurement involving caustic soda ingredient HANDICAP
Jellied preparations like shots ASPICS
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Letter from company offering connections to the north PSI
Loaf a bit, dancing with a cat CIABATTA
Old fool and minister climbing, not having the head for it? VERTIGO
Perhaps a smoker's mellow, obscuring end of bloody horror film CARRIAGE
Recorded over silence with one bar level topping another TSHAPED
Republican nobody introduces lunchtime mischief in DC NOONER
Salt, maybe an inhabitant of the ocean? SEASON
Sir, maths needs revising pronto SMARTISH
Sister almost comprehending Spanish is a great musician MAESTRO
Stone cask over ground, it's used by bakers NUTMEG
Storey remodelled by secretive person OYSTER
Touch suspicious, not seeing any resistance to win, or nearly EACHWAY
Unusual development in intro to tune by Muse, English rock band TERATOGENESIS
What's moved passes time on clock, with First Lady keeping Mohammed's wife inside THEAYESHAVEIT