The Telegraph - TOUGHIE - Nov 24 2021 Crossword Puzzle Solution

 The Telegraph - TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 2,754 - Nov 24 2021 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
Artist; popular and with taste -- Mackintosh, for example	RAINWEAR
Bale occasionally taking top off muscular stomach -- causing storm	BLIZZARD
Bandage the man on strike	SWATHE
Bespoke Django clue about Cantona's focus when missing header for Leeds United	CONJUGATED
Cast a milkman and ex-actor!	EXCLAMATIONMARK
Competitive karaoke on vacation with nurse	KEEN
Content to claim a car on insurance -- this is extravagant	MACARONI
Discovered Ypres Command is secure in advance	PREORDER
Enter uninvited because of genuine diamonds inside	INTRUDE
In retrospect, Ernie's pal, Eric is somewhat degenerate	RELAPSE
Kind about drunken aunt at first	NATURE
Maybe Yoko takes a paper -- oddly without obligation to buy	ONAPPRO
Number a chapter at the start, building story	ACCOUNT
Pillars of some American communities lose badly after politician supports form of gambling?	TOTEMPOLES
Son taken in by detailed scam on board ship -- alternatively, one might put the squeeze on you?	BOACONSTRICTOR
Spirited eccentric bites first	FEISTY
Spring rainfall's covering sportsperson	SHOWJUMPER
Strangles Morse, ultimately one of five English detectives with self-control	EQUINEDISTEMPER
Study in guesthouse, say, to make a living	BREADANDBUTTER
The Office of the President of the United States of America has nothing against Alabama?	OVAL
They run round rooms ignoring what occurs before M put Bond girls at risk somehow	SKIRTINGBOARDS
They use baseball bats regularly in set way: Ron Kray angrily smashed knees	NEWYORKYANKEES
Told 'intrudes into' means 'spoils'	PRIZEMONEY
Too American, having all systems go at last	ALSO
Trade knight for rook in plot that's set up for provocation	REDRAG
When Flymo's final component is absent, squash up grass, perhaps	DRUG