The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 2,977 - Dec 20 2022

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A child's toy in highest place ATOP
A French game with half of Lyon following is turbulent UNRULY
Arctic creature smuggled back west cheaply that's oddly overlooked NARWHAL
Bake grouse for Sunday dinner maybe ROASTBEEF
Bashful cat half consumed large rodent COYPU
Bearing of one among members of workforce MIEN
Behind given smack, producing sensation felt later AFTERTASTE
Coasting sadly round lake longing for good old days NOSTALGIC
Depression of standard in credit CRATER
Formal meeting to lay to rest opinion INTERVIEW
In Rockall a mainly cud-chewing beast LLAMA
Informative film for those working in a theatre? RADIOGRAPH
Insipid whiskey a primarily thirsty European regularly drains hot Waterish
Let bank, by arrangement, cover BLANKET
Matador's cape movement I watched essentially in Italian city VERONICA
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Most of book is ultimately irrelevant for backup soldier RESERVIST
Part of organ heard but not initially odd EARDRUM
Pea showing sign of life? PULSE
Restore to good condition slope, we're told HEAL
Running amok two lasses in wood indulge in dissipation SOWONESWILDOATS
Score of zero, bowled with ball in high, slow arc BLOB
Shout of support about beginnings of very unusual reproductive structure OVULE
Stir wake when travelling? WATERSKI
Thoroughly examine page in former traditional learning EXPLORE
Trying to protect kinky chignon I got cut by American CUSHIONING
Unfortunately, upset railway workers strike over this SALARY
Warm place to keep pot simmering, not requiring immediate attention BACKBURNER
With son in the lead plunders what is allowed to flow over SPILLAGE
Young lass, it's facetiously said, clutches right adjustable tool WRENCH