The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 566 - May 20 2011

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Air-conditioning's piercing sound can't be repaired? That's presumptuous AUDACIOUS
Amazingly, monk's stood up and gone euphoric ZINGY
Anagram of 9dn? There's a catch there! DRIFTNET
Bit of muck in instrument held up brief celebration XMAS
Cox for Hereford, perhaps? STEER
Distracted traveller returning to earth -- almost broken EPERDU
Fixed penalty's about the last straw FINITE
For 3, say, set up makeover -- around Tuesday the First? TITFER
Game miler painfully addressing technique MAILMERGE
Got hot -- regularly unbuckled top of denims NUKED
Interminable knocking on nursery door gets the cane RATTAN
Join Lesotho's countrymen YOKELS
Lame duck? GAME
No time to sort out lines at start of service? Heavens! IDYLLS
Nothing wooden about Clay? KAOLIN
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OUTDOES CAPS
Part of Harrow's headgear PINNER
Printing ink empty -- on blink? BATIK
Pronounced Arnold somewhat wooden CEDARN
Recite list of clubs defunct Callover
Sound playground-type bike: one of four QUAD
Sounds as if Jacob conceivably will scrap casket JEWELBOX
Steamship hove to at port, piping at bow and stern lost in accident VAPORETTO
Tentatively OK with appeal for growth? OAKAPPLE
Tips seeds over skirts SIDESTEPS
Top brass briefly suffer hollow intelligence LTGEN
Uprooted, you and I worked for The Listener WEEDED
Where we all set out in some up-to-the-minute rig-outs UTERI
Wrath with Opposition leader producing genuine conflict HOTWAR
Writer's copy found in midst of refuse heap SCRIBE