The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 2,467 - Jul 8 2020

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& 25 Down When ordering hotel tables, wife's admitted in the cheap seats? BELOWTHE
500! Five hundred sheets! Imagine! DREAM
Adult sin? I think so, too AGREED
Article dropped by someone jumping -- he's untouchable LEPER
Bath's no.1 forward Thiebaud regularly getting sent off, the idiot BLOCKHEAD
Benefit one writing cheque returned REWARD
Breaking news: Spooner -- poor chap -- stripped of his status NONPERSON
Cathar chieftain kidnapping Sussex lad ARCHIE
Elmer left base to go on a bender FUDDLE
Foreign film ALIEN
Former president familiarly ignoring bill for sailing ship BARK
Frank Capra for one robbed of gold DIRECT
Good, free crossword? GRID
Hill-climbing traveller? NOMAD
Husband wearing cravat. Loud. Criminal, actually THIEF
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Irish county's banning golf forever ALWAYS
Jilt Juliet in Crete when sozzled REJECT
Log rolling -- ready kids? DESKDIARY
Motorway's boring eyesore spoiling green strategy STYMIE
Neat, if simple retro housing eccentric MISFIT
Pass made by S. Spielberg's favourite actor after new Oscar NOTHANKS
Pay money to bandage inflamed hair fracture SPLITEND
Pull in finally in London? TOWN
Real adversity oddly bypassed first-born ELDEST
See 18 Down SALT
Send abroad fabric -- tons leaving repeatedly EXILE
Shun key hospital we set up ESCHEW
Striking actors start to sabotage The Vanquished OUTCASTS
Undesirable pub song penned PARIAH
Wearing short dungarees to work, question artiste DRAGQUEEN