The Telegraph - Toughie Jul 20 2017

ClueAnswer
A bit of poetry's deliberately weird PERVERSE
A sailor, common, reported for combat training ASSAULTCOURSE
Affected smile less affected without hint of leer SIMPER
Combination college finds acceptable UNION
Cook stalk, retaining asparagus tip STEAM
Deputy in Washington getting a rise has media boss annoyed PEEVED
East German xenophobia and exclusion OSTRACISM
First class beer served up in the Crown and Sceptre? REGALIA
Flipping rotter is a shining example for major celeb MEGASTAR
Get a little cross about Turkey's border control tool? STRIMMER
It rises from Italian terrain ETNA
Lean old woman taking up man's dress? HAGGARD
Level of martial arts skill that can't be developed outside city GREENBELT
Lower church official collars the setter DEMEAN
One growing inappropriately enraged before king GARDENER
One vote in favour, or a number AYES
Organic mould altering INTEGRAL
Ploy grinding one down takes time STRATAGEM
Refusing alcohol -- it's 18, usually TEETOTAL
Replace Jack's potential beanstalk, as related? SUPERSEDE
Rodent disease found in sloth AGOUTI
Roll back the French gift of oratory? BAGEL
Russian brewer to relocate, abandoning base in German region SAMOVAR
Strong wind around island washed up case, perhaps MISTRIAL
This scorechart dismisses one failing personality assessment RORSCHACHTEST
Thus interrupted by jazz fans going head to head, such a performance is not very smooth STACCATO
Took a rise out of -- or put one in? RIBBED
Unique selling point about reissue oddly missing what consumer does USESUP
Work on a rude poem RONDEAU
Worm finally hollowed out heart of fruit tree MAPLE
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