The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 1,087 - Nov 20 2013

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Clues Answers
'Vintage calibre' -- very iffy description of this puzzle! CRUCIVERBAL
Accent an impediment? BURR
Components of polymer Italians found in desert MERIT
Consummation of marriage essential -- gingerly approached for starters? OMEGA
Drifter catches wave in southern isle SWAGMAN
Filmdom ain't regularly coming up for Ms Campbell NAOMI
In France, who's to hang Judas? QUISLING
In the morning everyone's getting up in wool LLAMA
Irritable brief -- brief one's seen on a bike? CROSSBAR
Items in mess-tin unfortunately overturned UNITS
Linger in Ceylon mostly -- a paradise SHANGRILA
Meet with brief going into Indiana court INTERSECT
Package meals returned -- cold and hard inside SACHET
Panelling for Rooney's bed, we hear? WAINSCOT
Pet Clark's first note's in key with two sopranos CARESS
Clues Answers
Polymath Stephen avoiding insipidity? Blow me down! LUMME
Protect three points on river ENSURE
Questionable sine qua non when chopping every northern conifer SEQUOIA
Recline informally on sea-front -- it offers some peace SILENCER
Shift involving speed of light engenders dispute ALTERCATION
Shy ethical dealing? FAIRTRADE
Speaker's downright subversive at heart UTTERER
Stand-in mustn't broadcast before one STUNTMAN
Those making a noise in chests? COFFERS
United Butcher's reported to be somewhere in Africa UGANDA
Vicar absorbed by brainy layout (not new) for prayer book BREVIARY
Vintage alembic a master dropped disastrously into hearth CRUCIBLE
Vintage fireplace is transformed when rid of awfully pale wallflower, for example Crucifer
Vintage Formica cut for use in cathedral maybe CRUCIFORM
Young bird, for instance, soaring to east EYAS