The Telegraph – Toughie – May 15 2018

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Clues	Answers
Address nail left on top of escritoire	TACKLE
Advertising professional in general so phoney	SLOGANEER
Article on Thailand, mostly — and where it is?	ASIA
Ball slower? Second hurries up	BACKSPIN
Bob, perhaps, one inspired by tough love	HAIRDO
Bully, time and time again taken down	THREATEN
Burning’s burning sensation	HOTSHOT
Collector — of girlfriends?	RAKE
Controller of current that rose at sea	RHEOSTAT
Dry soldier disturbed drunk partner?	DISORDERLY
Female with organ removed, afraid of nothing	FEARLESS
Fire in valley extinguished at the bottom	INGLE
Flower bearing towards the back	ASTERN
Herb accompanying woman back, extremely lazy to vacillate	DILLYDALLY
In manifestation of God, image recalled freedom	EMANCIPATION

Clues	Answers
In on	HAPPENING
Island taking a wallop in the midst of action	TAHITI
Lift some valuables I, arguably, must return	RAISE
Like paradise, any isle in a storm	ELYSIAN
Looking up, disease on the way in alien world far away	EXOPLANET
Old setter good with child	EXPECTING
Part right, but on the periphery	EXCERPT
Physicist entering coordinates latterly	TESLA
Possible ballast to drop, with balloon initially secured?	SANDBAG
Some talking bird	CHAT
South American once preserved?	INCAN
Treasure something sweet on some bananas, say?	HONEYBUNCH
Ultimate in diseases one’s caught, evidence of chickenpox, say?	SCAB
Verify gold teeth? I can’t when false	AUTHENTICATE
Where pub landlords are in prison	BEHINDBARS