The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 27,970 - Nov 27 2015

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A batsman's stroke, look GLANCE
A-list chap spending hours upsetting big characters CAPITALS
Box of paintings maybe in study CARTON
Distant sea abroad for one normally on the land FARMER
Easy target making one flap BARNDOOR
Frenzy brought by smell of dampness MUST
Hurry around very busy place HIVE
It's the end of the game, chum MATE
Joke precedes brief medical procedure in subcontinental area PUNJAB
Leader of men taking a country to right is seen as a plotter MACHINATOR
Mark in playing field north of old road RECORD
Native in tin hat surprisingly embracing sailor INHABITANT
One from hot dusty place goes to the foreign land where things can grow ARABLE
Perhaps a trimmer sort of vessel CUTTER
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Perhaps maiden first wants house to be clean HOOVER
Positions organised by Cambridge college? RANKINGS
Quartet in concert in days gone by ONCE
Scoundrel ordered to get good repeatedly BADEGG
Small openings? Girl being stuck inside yells CRANNIES
The female somehow hated being wrapped up SHEATHED
Unwell after brief holiday, an old rocker hesitated VACILLATED
US general with a plan taking everyone to swampy area MARSHALL
Vehicle by front of shop gets bashed STRUCK
Very happy to be as one of the family but not the head of it ELATED
What when drunk is crimson, aha! MARASCHINO
Where milk is left and a chunk of bread DOORSTEP
Within a week, say, business area goes to rack and ruin DECAYS
Work for top people, getting pounds and from 'ere onwards wealth OPULENCE