The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 24,862 - Dec 14 2005

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Ability to endure patience TOLERANCE
Adapt to study behaviour CONFORM
All in on manufacture of ointment base LANOLIN
At an easy pace speculator is topped and tailed AMBLE
Beware! There's a sentry about LOOKOUT
Church spire the French find expensive at first STEEPLE
Close alternative points to sign ENDORSE
Criminal's offer to become a sporty opponent CONTENDER
Genuine kind of naïve young woman INGENUE
Ghastly action started lately underwater clear of the headland Luridness
Greek goddess is an unbeatable rival NEMESIS
Hickory tree snares Long Island bird PELICAN
Indiscriminate libel, eg is easy to read LEGIBLE
Is page 'S' about dolphins? Seapigs
Like ivory but use bone carved with ruthenium Eburneous
Made a live broadcast of the Middle Ages MEDIAEVAL
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Mitigate release RELIEVE
New religion encompassed by starry involvement with forefathers ANCESTRAL
Out-of-office King is more tardy LATER
Pals arise, determined, before noon MATES
Pub next to a guesthouse TAVERNA
Queer Carl became a varnisher LACQUERER
Relative could be pleasant up to a point NIECE
Russian, without capital, of an European area IBERIAN
Scanty commoner chases a runner SKIMP
Secluded regular PRIVATE
Someone who improves things, mentored a change EMENDATOR
Tory in a furious state over toll Scavage
Ulster - not French - fabric NINON
Unite a number on the island ACCRETE
Weald earthwork reveals a Spanish hamlet Aldea
What I was on when I met a man who wasn't there STAIR