Telegraph Toughie

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TOUGHie Solution No 00,000

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1 Book some built-up place in Wonderland? (1,4,4,5) 9 Attire in which one can have good ramble (7) 10 Innocent at home, also honest not at home (7) 11 Sail from front position to end of race (4) 12 Magistrate’s to arrange reparation (10) 14 It’s right, English place having English name (6) 15 Officers nuts? Not entirely, we hear (8) 17 A sentimentalist, knight out to be ‘balmy’ (8) 18 Taught but lacking a time to become developed (6) 21 Suggest bottling old wine without strength (10) 22 German thread with ends snipped off (4) 24 Language in which his wail goes around (7) 25 Creatures in the sea in indecent fashion reportedly (7) 26 Not far away from a joint that’s slightly indecent (4,3,7)

1 Town and port only finding room for one duke (7) 2 Chemical has ruined oath on paper - gosh! (15) 3 Born in France, died in poverty (4) 4 Enter society loafing about (6) 5 Plant beginning to grow in lake and not shooting up (8) 6 Prisoner, one with nothing, can do fantastic portrait (2,8) 7 One has concern if ticked off for a swindle (10,5) 8 The game of love (6) 13 The realist contrived to be more secretive (10) 16 Wearing Christian symbol, I stop being demonic (8) 17 Piece of music rendered by a seaman in port (6) 19 Government request once cut, not for keeping (1-6) 20 Physicist has formula with speed of light constant (6) 23 The old primate? He won’t wear it! (4)

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