The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 2,827 - Dec 20 2015

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Clues Answers
5 and his fellow players counted in cricket side ELEVEN
and 32: Silly repartee in home of 4 Down PEAR
As result of song for couple, love follows DUETO
Bands, five of which are featured in Christmas song RINGS
Cause of world revolution? It's partly reversed LOVE
Christmas visitor appearing in strange light ANGEL
Composed poems in place of classics course? EPSOM
Finishes off list -- whatever you receive is genuine TRUE
Flier received initially at Christmas PARTRIDGE
Half a dozen layers among seasonal gifts GEESE
Having a ball, like ladies, one over the eight DANCING
House that's HQ for sport in London LORDS
Like ten nobles below, going into spring LEAPING
Major work that's sung after my 6 11 30 TOME
Number of days in present period TWELVE
Number of those working in dairy -- or having a row? EIGHT
Pages penned by writer in verse for sweetheart POPPET
Part of Christmas decoration that depends on host MISTLETOE
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Piano put in middle of jetty for musician PIPER
Players having their day, though not in first eleven DRUMMERS
Poet as deliverer of annual Christmas message POPE
Predate unusually excessive formality REDTAPE
Protest by left is hard to refute completely DEMOLISH
Queen's consort? TOMCAT
See 29 TREE
Show anger about women's swan, one of seven SWIMMER
Some Christmas entertainment was elating SENT
Start of herbaceous border that runs around garden HEDGE
Strange sense in which most citizens are German ESSEN
Taking a risk, we poorly selected gear for travelling on snow SKIWEAR
Transported as gifts are, we hear RAPT
Under pressure, ran over nincompoop HARASSED
Unruly carnival location, from our perspective RIOTOUS
Veteran that's discarded in reshuffle OLDHAND
We're wrong to include rubbish put down, in other words REWROTE
With arms raised, cape gives comfortable feeling SNUGNESS