The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 24,222 - Nov 26 2003

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About to hold huge bloom ROSE
Bet it was taken with telescopic lens LONGSHOT
Count the cost RATE
Credit given for past function TICKOVER
Educational journal has no comeback from the start ONSET
Exultant mate joins a circle COCKAHOOP
Few in their organisation do well THRIVE
Got seasoned worker restored to health PROCURED
Hangs on until the carollers appear WAITS
Is spellbound by a magnetic personality CHARISMA
Liner's right to offer top-class fare STARBOARD
Look for class-leader in the sick bay SCAN
Others get upset by convulsions THROES
Prefer to mount attack GOFOR
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Progressively in favour of electoral divisions FORWARDS
Seamstress grips top of knitting pin SKEWER
Senior Roman magistrate needs time to seek advice CONSULT
Set fire to church beneath a hill TORCH
Speedwriting by worker of little stature SHORTHAND
Stopped a Socialist pocketing what remained ARRESTED
Talk with radio operator in Kent CHATHAM
Their vocal renditions are so rich in variety CHOIRS
Two ways to ring a duck MALLARD
Type of training ideal for domestics? INSERVICE
Unyielding fellow in data processing ADAMANT
Vegetable pulp North African rejected MUSHROOM
Vehicle crushes bird at roundabout CAROUSEL
Vessels for the Navy in America URNS