The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 3,061 - May 16 2023

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Ability to read story filled with smut, ultimately somewhat indecorous LITERACY
Audio equipment offering choice of call, character phoning home HEADSET
Author in front standing to pen new book NABOKOV
Bone buried in barrow at the point of death MORIBUND
Brass bar as plunger? NECKLINE
Cash fine STERLING
Clear butter quantity probed by all fingers and thumbs, say? PATENT
Current crossed by lads aboard craft -- lighter? ARSONIST
Cut off, one thus gone ISOLATE
Drink: good inn can do it on the rocks GINANDTONIC
Equines working a long time, guzzling last of water ONAGERS
Fashionable second course MODISH
Fights during preliminary race, most serious HEAVIEST
Footwear on pirate BOOTLEG
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German writer beginning on scarier, terrifying tale SCHILLER
Keats' almost sensational feeling about a subject of one of his odes NIGHTINGALE
Red little mark, fancifully? SCARLET
Setter messed up further attempt at passing RETEST
Shabby material covering plain silk TABARET
Shark, teeth like efficient razors, all initially going after fish with tail ripped off HUSTLER
Shift first of ice blocking dogsled on the move DISLODGE
Soldier on manoeuvres nearing the welcoming capital in Havana HANGINTHERE
Statesman's concern with extra weight carried? CORPORATION
Stuck in branches, treetop close, perhaps? STREET
Tool is grabbed by team when water cut off CHISEL
Use force to get a compliment PRAISE
Wait in back of limo, opening some American wine? LOITER
Wrapped in material, case of Soave shut up again RESEAL