The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 27,999 - Jan 1 2016

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A bit of fatty food, say, in B&B, given to everyone BUTTERBALL
A thin flat piece turned over in wood BALSA
At some stage a yellowish-brown bird will nibble worm's head ASANDWHEN
Bird seed by pile of hay PEACOCK
Blow with awful rain as sheet upon sheet LAMINAR
Care is arranged, old boy being kept inside for exercises AEROBICS
City weeps when leader is lost LEEDS
Experienced folk -- arthritic strugglers when pen has to be put to paper? OLDHANDS
Fair one is in shipping bulletin I will broadcast ISLE
Fruit from old garden creating lump in the throat ADAMSAPPLE
German city being without Anglican church ESSEN
Give everything needed to English queen, one with limited power EQUIP
Good alternative to roads is what some look for GRAIL
Hairstyle that is a hit BANG
Hard cheese naughty lad fed to male rabbit? BADLUCK
Hat priced ridiculously, attractive to potential buyer? DIRTCHEAP
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In school period it amounts to pause INTERMIT
In the morning soldiers knocked over character in Athens SIGMA
Lengths of cloth to dispose of, first to last ELLS
Like many an egg taken illegally POACHED
Maybe Bangor's act is in decline DOWNTURN
Portray me being silly -- here today, gone tomorrow TEMPORARY
Puddings making one poorly somehow? Stories! ROLYPOLIES
Revolutionary house name in French city NIMES
Sixties teenager in dance showing style again REMODEL
Spooner's worry, notice, is no longer confined SETFREE
Sunday's social event -- small, with calories cut down DOMINICAL
Tense, with higher notes having to be sung? KEYEDUP
This person backed Irish ruler EMIR
Three leading characters from Cambridge set up a university somewhere in China MACAU
Tool said to have succeeded getting in SPOKESHAVE
Tot crossing river in a South American country SURINAM