The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 2,885 - Feb 5 2017

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A character endlessly going around America, creating excitement AROUSAL
After start of holidays, time-sharing numbers increase HEIGHTEN
Attempt call for peace, producing surprised reaction GOSH
Call requesting help in part of shortest month MAYDAY
Check money put into second trip on board SCRUTINISE
Conservative arranged intro, perhaps, for business association COPARTNERSHIP
Convoluted clues are, mostly, not for the faithful SECULAR
Current party line as object of veneration IDOL
Dire prospects disrupted group solidarity ESPRITDECORPS
Disarming type succeeding with article in university catalogue UNILATERALIST
Doctor in Paris providing remedy for pain ASPIRIN
Fellow endlessly annoying American statesman FRANKLIN
Info about mature people embracing a middle course GOLDENMEAN
Okay for verse to be included in copy APPROVE
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One who doesn't have, we hear, glossy coat LACQUER
Performs parts of Hamlet and Othello, say ACTS
Plane, for instance, targeted in odd places TREE
Relating to part of body that's used in certain test in a lab INTESTINAL
Revision of attitude that's produced by major operation CHANGEOFHEART
Rocket, for example, RAF accepts must be redesigned SPACECRAFT
Shot finishes off fair rally in court CHANCERY
Small room on street accommodating one musician CELLIST
Some Americans were drafted, and responded ANSWERED
Some soldiers briefly seen in service in boggy terrain MORASS
Supposedly authoritative source making nothing clear, curiously ORACLE
Travesty as salary is split by staff PARODY
Vegetable, so to speak, carelessly cooked? CHARRED
Workers' ill-gotten gains? SICKPAY