Possible Clues:

• Dedicated person arranging outside broadcast at the last minute
• Of a spheroid, flattened at the poles
• Dedicated to having the end flat and dead
• Able to become a monastic devotee
• Of spheroid, flattened at the ends
• Squeezed at the ends, as leaves
• Old boy deceased, a religious type
• One dedicated to monastic life
• Offered up one devoted to monastic life
• Not quite getting round to being dedicated