The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 617 - Aug 18 2011

Tired of your current crossword puzzle? Try solving our daily crossword puzzles. GO TO DAILY PUZZLES!
Clues Answers
Backward killer with a second name among gendarmes, singularly obsessed sort? MONOMANIAC
Begin, perhaps, biblical work facing artist and priest ISRAELI
Croat mends tattered footwear DOCMARTENS
Decoration symbolised in home barring outsiders ORDEROFMERIT
English and French race venue without sun promoted in hard material ENAMEL
Fish taken by chaps in fishy set -- it shows a steep decline? ESCARPMENT
Flower duke pruned is sentimentally pretty TWEE
Get rid of squalid place DUMP
Go over the potter's item reportedly and claim undue precedence? JUMPTHEQUEUE
Great title I devised covering European film set? GLITTERATI
Hero in court frustrated without peripheral characters ASHE
Measurement certainly taken up with degree in fashion YARDAGE
Mug with drugs, we hear, an accessory to daredevil activities? TRAPEZE
Notice old currency MARK
Nude lass posed with no end of sangfroid being this? SENSUAL
Clues Answers
One dumped by Welsh politician in test EXAM
One exhibited some bridal images DALI
One running a saloon? MOTORIST
Persuade prisoner with fault to accept latest in rehabilitation CONVINCE
Place of refuge close to penitentiary in a poor area ASYLUM
Poor knight beginning to waver rocks -- be very cautious? THINKTWICE
Prickly type keeping gold trophy at home amid exercises PORCUPINE
Prominent position gained by foreigner in southern church SALIENCE
Put a stop to some rush so bike got held up KIBOSH
Source of fear in game boy played on rear of train BOGEYMAN
Special label for man and dog STAG
Supplier of records is caught by judge in part of court with short attention DISCJOCKEY
Target flying feature? Not half BUTT
Twitter report perhaps by excited ornithologist not to be taken lightly INEARNEST
Vienna oddly always having a superficial appearance VENEER