The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 25,734 - Sep 29 2008

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A column I will condense into a short paragraph PILLAR
A few stiff doubles needed before opening this show WAXWORKS
A joint stake SKEWER
A pointless contest for the loser LOVEGAME
Always faithful? CONSTANT
Be one of a team of surgeons? COOPERATE
Bill gets university ban TABU
Bit of a scrap PIECE
Defence of the absent ALIBI
Dog to fight - but not seriously? SHADOWBOX
Drawings of Southern vessels SKETCHES
He gives notice REVIEWER
How undergraduate works? Not entirely TOADEGREE
It's just one taking part in mail distribution IMPARTIAL
Makes a secret assignation CREATES
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Mark drives badly uphill SPOT
Noel's blazer YULELOG
Novelist about fifty? Not quite HARDLY
One knows them to be well-informed ROPES
Point duty DETAIL
Reckons groups of actors are increasing Castsup
Separated, being indifferent DETACHED
Sports' event in which the winners pull away TUGOFWAR
Telling lie, Grant is found out RELATING
The only thing an exhausted army can beat? RETREAT
Three goddesses lay out a feast FATES
Time may be on its side Churchtower
Time to follow American custom USAGE
Tourist activity results in double vision SIGHTSEEING
Worker encountered me coming back first EMMET