The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 3,194 - Jan 3 2024

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A personal best in undignified language? Exactly! SLAPBANG
Bait in lake and river LURE
Bash with sharp poke on leg? SHINDIG
Bit of fun in dance for old actor CHARLESLAUGHTON
Bound, aged gentleman's manacled EDGE
Certainly the first person heard? AYE
Club requiring fresh players, one held by Yorkshire team, briefly NEWCASTLEUNITED
County welcoming a suit HEARTS
Engineer hearing about lead in long pipe NARGHILE
Explorer with trained hounds HUDSON
Gas supplied in secret, tanks sent over NATTER
Grapes, say, about right for meal BRUNCH
Initially teeth wobbling, order a brace TWO
Lesser star in bubble? BLISTER
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Old criminal working in cloak CAPONE
Others as yet unmentioned dead, in need of resurrection? ETAL
Person sent up: I hate that -- stop it! ENOUGH
Piece of writing is coming apart, by the sound of it? PHRASE
Pole found profane expression in publication BOATHOOK
Prize belly on sailor JACKPOT
Reportedly, footwear split! SHOO
So much was true, unfortunately, about a leader in Lenin -- that was right under Stalin's nose WALRUSMOUSTACHE
Superficial sort breaking leak SKINDEEP
This when scone arrived he whipped up, jam finally added? DEVONSHIRECREAM
Tree on mountain, for example, remains ASH
Understand article in newspaper that's backed up GATHER
Very good one ACE
Whitish blocks alongside Tommy's home BLIGHTY