The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 28,292 - Dec 8 2016

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Clues Answers
A learner falls behind American university standard USUAL
Ace I had cited with singular vision? ONEEYED
Article on port, town in Hampshire ANDOVER
Drink round lake chap's left for cold meal PLOUGHMANSLUNCH
Drooping fruit cut close to shop LIMP
Drop, we hear, is level among others TIER
Dry wind is over African country -- medic takes flight SIROCCO
Gentleman put up with single fried dish RISSOLE
Hit the roof? Some do it when diving (2,3,3,4,3) GOOFFTHEDEEPEND
Hundred students hope to pass this rock? CORAL
Improve two bridge players by luck? Not principally ENHANCE
Individual entering seaside venue is trail-blazer PIONEER
Inflammation? Sadly, yes -- temperature must be contained STYE
Like an eyesore, unedifying largely at the edges? UGLY
Limit club -- bar women! EDGE
Loser prone to sprawl around house NOHOPER
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Lush part of meadow in Oxfordshire WINO
Mention of amount secured for an unknown person SOMEONE
Mo not leader? Doubtful IFFY
Revolutionary deserters showing sign of military rank STAR
Rogue part of church given hearing KNAVE
Seek to win over legal institution COURT
Soprano with energy, a singer and swimmer SEABASS
Starter, perhaps, requiring study to get flavour SOUPCON
Strip in seedy joint interrupted by English priest DEPRIVE
Support aim by Arab, say, in East End ENDORSE
Tanning device plus man for a massage SUNLAMP
Unexpectedly eccentric kind of swindle CONFIDENCETRICK
Wander about with son in lodgings DIGRESS
What could be rhetorical skill -- or lack of certainty QUESTIONABILITY
What customers want a shop to be -- 'customary'? Editor needed! STOCKED
What might be quaint and last in furniture? ANTIQUE