The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 24,559 - Dec 24 2004

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A barrier of 'awthorn, say, is an advantage EDGE
A stint here and there ABOUT
Amateur players getting the last word AMEN
Architectural feature - hindrance I'm to get rid of PEDIMENT
Bear peppered with bullets, we hear? HOLD
Bridge-player to dine, having hugged opponent briefly EAST
Commands fellow to take fruit MANDATES
Does he get angry being in a shift? CROSSDRESSER
Early-morning public transport is something poetic IAMBUS
Get the better of maiden, maybe? Tut-tut! OVERCOME
Has topless dresses OWNS
It could be a half frequently facing battle FRACTION
Leave empty CLEAROUT
Like some houses discovered outside the boundaries of Exeter TERRACED
Make best man learn about decorum at the reception? TABLEMANNERS
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Man's man? ISLANDER
Monster making some progress OGRE
Nearly all the newspapers going with old forecast PRESAGED
No longer a legal wrong, to be exact EXTORT
One matriarch moving from land across the ocean NORTHAMERICA
Remedy that's said to make Mummy's female friend act soppily? ANTIDOTE
Rose may be walking through the countryside RAMBLING
Rowing circle, a clique OARING
Some women in Essex were of their number NINE
Terrible ruler, first person to take advantage IVAN
The reverse of miserable, the woman who is in a hurry? DASHER
University period started by Scottish author of fairy tales making speech LANGUAGE
Various oldies around the province treated as heroes LIONISED
Wilt and fall, having drunk nothing DROOP
Wrongful Korean acts - UN peevish CANTANKEROUS