The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 973 - May 3 2013

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A guest of David Dimbleby keeping your secret? ONTHEQT
and 12: What may hold up top saver's heading straight at PEP, unfortunately SPAGHETTI
and 23: Mug, owing -- but not the mamma and singer ROBIN
Backsliding brother of the compiler's received cut FORERIB
Demonstrate competitive people gathering to get a taste of really strong ale MARCHBEER
Dickensian father punished and holding son for transgression PODSNAP
Encourage one back to look nosily around farm PIGGERY
Expected waster of time to get lost during ascent FORESAW
Feature of old market place sadly trails contemporary in growth WHITECHAPELCART
French citizen one business is settling in Tyne and Wear? NICOISE
Has delinquent trimmed off a little bit of cash in this? SALAMITECHNIQUE
Holding a party to which girls aren't invited, we'll realise loss! WASTAGE
Inner self held up during cross-examination ANIMA
Is leaving official meeting over smells NOSES
Kept by European under hat is a Roman coin SOLIDUS
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Makes fun of sentences SENDSUP
Many informal things knocked down area LOTSA
Mark boundaries of shop with German DELIMIT
Mastermind behind epic sport chasing cash receiver up TOLSTOY
New World resident's found wife swinging, strangled by rope COWBIRD
Not the first to check school soup BORTSCH
Old Beatles number written after Queen proposal to drop intro QUARRYMEN
Private number ringing me for something spicy PIMENTO
Rare sense required to stop island getting plant disease EYESPOT
Real ivory NATURAL
See 11 STRAP
See 21 REDBREAST
Soldier capturing a foul-mouthed old patriot GARIBALDI
Turned up dull brown colour that's barely showing? NUDIE
Wormlike meandering around Cumbria, finding one Lake after another LUMBRICAL