The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 979 - May 15 2013

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'Hot gear from DIY rags' makeover artist FAIRYGODMOTHER
... a little bit like the US did in 1980? ELECTRON
Bombshell America's dropped for Iranian revolutionary leaders in Middle Eastern capital ... BEIRUT
Bowled, quickly try to escape dismissal BRUSHOFF
Chatter inanely during American hikes UPRATES
Contents of autopsy report? Boy fed with nothing ruined by squalid vice den BODYOFEVIDENCE
Daffodil and primrose, say, almost entirely grown facing north at bottom of yard YELLOWS
Easily led, steered clear of wedding in speech DUCTILE
Eddy's dropped right into shaft below -- who's to blame? CULPRIT
Expression that's foolish -- 'Time is money' IDIOM
Flipping puzzle has no answer -- start again! RESET
Ghastly old woman to be concerned about bachelor MACABRE
If so, perhaps ass was a humbug? HOGWASH
In school, pupil's leaving to suppress gurgling sound SQUELCH
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Loose woman relative removing top UNTIE
No good rules being broken by drug dispenser NEBULISER
Not quite there, as tomorrow's news is by end of today? UNREADY
Nurse lacking medallions perhaps gets elevation ENNOBLING
One supervising old poet's output in front of Queen OVERSEER
Popular Conservative Opposition leader got in crookedly, concealing true identity INCOGNITO
Religious figure one considers again, perhaps REDEEMER
Severe gremlins hold back business deal MERGER
Shave for the first time? Don't use so much CUTDOWNON
Sound of wind in trees Sebastian recorded for thriller PSYCHO
Source of pain for non-Home Counties devotee in retreat ULCER
Two cricket sides divided over the tea -- good one's put out just in case ONTHEOFFCHANCE
What's gained by wicked soldiers in gun emplacement NOREST
Workers organised in contraction? LABOURMOVEMENT