Telegraph Cryptic #31026

2025-09-08

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Across

1a

Firm underwear for snakes (6)

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4a

Sort of fuel for each cigarette? (6)

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8a

Prince hiding in grassland (3)

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10a

Could this help you to see better? Nonsense! (7)

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11a

European Union name such unruly falsetto singers? (7)

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12a

Sculptor has bar at home (5)

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13a

Treat with contempt Russian leader and leader of Germany for not agreeing (9)

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14a

Something gripping for the papers, a short piece on dangerous reptile (9,4)

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17a

Write song and tend to get confused where leader lives (7,6)

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22a

One grail manufactured before new metal object (5,4)

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23a

Slow movement in one of Florida's islands (5)

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24a

Husband on island put on weight, somewhere in the West Country (7)

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25a

Old instrument found in bar after fire (7)

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26a

Discover uniform kept by second son (3)

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27a

Decline returning aboard velocipede? Certainly! (6)

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28a

Mark from wet earth and grime initially, in the Home Counties? (6)

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Down

1d

Hurrah for toast! (6)

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2d

Student in wild drinking binge gets a mixer (7)

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3d

A win once more (5)

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5d

Wildcat runs behind American news presenter (9)

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6d

Composer put up one dainty, incomplete trophy (7)

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7d

Troubled singer to pack it in (6)

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8d

Bushes transformed Hendon doors around northerly road (13)

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9d

Madness maybe a result of being knocked unconscious? (13)

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14d

Rotter has e.g. jack or ace, not queen (3)

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15d

Vain old lag taking his ease, one might say (9)

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16d

Grass, something sold in garden centre (3)

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18d

Using no pesticides, I can go mad about resistance (7)

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19d

Wrapped up shattered red bone (7)

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20d

Hide, lacking energy, in a state of agitation (6)

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21d

Courageand where it might come from (6)

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23d

This person may stand in, when you're patient? (5)

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