The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 3,020 - Mar 3 2023

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Birds mass then cross into Western Sahara erratically MANXSHEARWATERS
Charming adult party with half-hearted chatter ADORABLE
Conductor of opera concerned with repeated upset TOSCANINI
Current regulator's letter from Greece intercepted by English immediately RHEOSTAT
Did fly perhaps gather with colony leaving river SWAM
European papal edict that is pleasant without beginning to invite enthusiasm EBULLIENCE
Fish stuck in waste trap TETRA
Framework made of, primarily, seasoned wood SASH
Frank after service not on VAT radar? DUTYFREE
Get rest around middle of afternoon LEARN
Go through the motions as issue backed on record MARKTIME
Go work in post office, collecting fines POPOFF
In Cyprus, hotel that's horrid and rude CHEEKY
Insignificant short chap escaping unavoidable fate TINY
Intimate relationship initially stifled by brute FRIEND
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Lively plonk quaffed by Sunday on vacation SPARKY
Look back on space travelling -- they're off! ESCAPEES
Magnificent valley moguls regularly visited GORGEOUS
Milking former luvviedom? EXACTING
One expected to make final tried running round Oval? EDITOR
Outwit what could follow all the next level BEST
Partial cover-ups of leg fine in short skirts MONOKINIS
Pluck outside of pheasants, say, or other kinds of sport BALLGAMES
See you, more than once, during overture to Ernani BYEBYE
Shorter fighter, not one grasping question brusquer
Shy, retiring, getting husband demoted without deserving contempt WORTHLESS
Special edition, 50 per cent of 1, perhaps EXTRA
Tough young people mostly absorbing books YOBBO
Unlimited short article reprinted and inflated RHETORICAL