The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 2,874 - Nov 13 2016

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After game with a lot of cards, sides surrounding English ref? WHISTLER
Choice between academic and graduate, following set procedure PROFORMA
Composing, thus, old article SOOTHING
Decline in royal company WITHER
Edge of path that's unusually wide, say WAYSIDE
Endless supply of food for wild animal BOAR
Entertainer, from start, is terrific ARTISTE
European adult shielding one declared innocent EXONERATED
Fail to hit single person MISS
Fuel driver smells -- what are the odds? DIESEL
How to start recycling paper showing where minister stands PULPIT
Legal group revealing a substance concealed by male, with distinctive flavour MAGISTRACY
Like mate in game that's not competitive FRIENDLY
Off-putting statement that could make one alert LATER
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Out of the running at this point -- twice NOWHERE
Painter almost ready on time MONET
Primate and king embraced by sovereigns, for example MONKEY
River breaks over opening to harbour THAMES
Severe sentence in novel is not prim about people IMPRISONMENT
Some medicines sent that'll bring temperature down ICINESS
Test like this is detested, certainly INDEED
Traveller with fliers for mechanics, for instance REPAIRMEN
Two people in film sharing a kind of fan EXTRACTOR
Understand in depth FATHOM
Veteran who advises soldiers to run MENTOR
Why a report is strangely admirable PRAISEWORTHY
Workers preparing field drag stuff on haphazardly GROUNDSTAFF