The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 30,538 - Feb 16 2024

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A nun that's abridged religious work is diligent PERSISTENT
Agent before noon on road travelling to collect fish AMBASSADOR
Become fond of job making carpet TAKETOTASK
Bird's woeful cry going round Margate occasionally WAGTAIL
Card game modelled after patience originally having no competitors UNOPPOSED
Crew prepare before last of folk board on ship GANGPLANK
Declined eating hot piece of meat SHANK
First to leave ship lane ALLEY
Fish breed, we're told RAYS
Flee south with queen, perhaps SCAT
Heard harsh argument about king's scholarly assignment COURSEWORK
Hollowed out chunky squash plant CYPRESS
Iron edges of light fabric FELT
It's confusing how to make duck smaller yet bigger ADDLING
Number exposed affair EVENT
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One following joke with poke of tongue PUNJABI
Outline tale I need to adapt DELINEATE
Place to eat starters of cornbread and free-range eggs CAFE
Pleasant-sounding American entering phoney claim MUSICAL
Prior needs queries to be resolved with priest PREREQUISITES
Regularly ignored show in French you reviewed is broadcast GOESOUT
Relatives firm with us about moral offence COUSINS
Reportedly, London gangsters rage CRAZE
Run revolutionary European business TRADE
Second of pirates person at sea enlists ROPESIN
Sorting hierarchical positions of soldiers, knight and monarch RANKING
Speak about current surgical speciality position ORIENTATE
Sudden movement scared youngster SPRINGCHICKEN
Surface of loo roll absorbs FLOOR
Trash receptacle seen in Parisian station? GARBAGE