The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 27,662 - Dec 2 2014

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All the best volunteers will show up twice TATA
Attempt to hold a platter TRAY
Celebrity goes on vacation, but not Central America -- result of lack of fare? STARVATION
Concerned with how the bread gets sliced? FINANCIAL
Directed cast, or ...? ACTORS
Doctor with duty to follow mother's rambling discourse RIGMAROLE
Enter a tent and peer around PENETRATE
Gemstone set my hat off AMETHYST
Grass's condition after batting INFORM
Green or red male's pants EMERALD
Hopeless in record time INEPT
It could be blooming useless, initially, if cash is wasted FUCHSIA
Looked good, area outside church GLANCED
Measure bit in middle CENTIMETRE
Musical riff -- it continues along the entire record GROOVE
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Paddy Brown's first to take drink TANTRUM
Pretty cold pick-up truck CUTE
Queen, in leaving, is putting a coat on? VARNISHING
Regard maid oddly getting dismissed -- I'm flipping helping! ADMIRATION
Rubbish issue LITTER
Sketches depict sins or misbehaving DESCRIPTIONS
Small bed detached without injury SCOTFREE
Start to strain? INTRO
Starts to believe Liberal's acting honourably? Nonsense! BLAH
Stop before one gets on horse STALLION
Temper -- losing head on a regular basis OFTEN
They make tracks for these garden bugs CATERPILLARS
Throttle -- unusual to be squeezed by learner? On the contrary STRANGLE
Wisdom of department opening in hospital DEPTH
Youth clubs kept secret about large violent criminal CHILDHOOD