The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 24,918 - Feb 17 2006

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About to meet a simpleton for kiss and cuddle CANOODLE
Adorns alternative name with odd notes ORNAMENTS
Allow motoring organisation to set up political alliance CARTEL
Beginning with spring taut after winding STARTINGUP
Carol, having hugged mad man, is falling apart SHATTERING
Convert mile - not v. tricky if you have surveyor's instrument CLINOMETER
Covering for seeds in spring month Penny put out ARIL
Cut wood by front of garage GASH
Dianne becomes transformed woman NADINE
Ethics Hamlet worked out in play THEALCHEMIST
Family symbols - see them clutched by small children TOTEMS
Get hold of the painter in 'Great Britain' GRAB
Good person embracing elder maybe in public place STREET
How the stripper became a tripper TOPLESS
I have son who composed music? IVES
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In Paris incidentally ENPASSANT
Male is getting excited about proposal - getting too excited EMOTIONALISM
Medical practitioner not so bad? One's taken in BONESETTER
Money coming in from show that includes 19 men REVENUE
Not entirely a country boy ALAN
Person with innate talent is unaffected NATURAL
Pole in box SPAR
Prisoner can get outside a prison? It's incontestable CASTIRON
Provide a dose of medicine, doctor - anything! DRAUGHT
Restricts what spotter does at railway station CONSTRAINS
Some corn perhaps in bird's craw CROP
Some stove needed here! OVEN
Time for a semi-revolution? HALFHOUR
Using hands hour after hour? ANALOGUE
Where you'll see pictures of kings and queens quite possibly ONTHECARDS