Telegraph Cryptic #31094

2025-11-26

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1a

Beat Peterboro' Utd on pens (5)

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4a

Former Queen award-winning singer tackling Help! (8)

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10a

A pigeon enthusiast accompanying dog (7)

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Sixteen oz LA California rolls stuffed with Italian food (7)

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Ceremony regularly hosted by Braintree (4)

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13a

US gangster failing to finish bird (5)

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14a

Check tide when ebbing (4)

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In Whitechapel, one might step on these fruits (6,3,5)

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19a

Expensive leather rips? Just a fake display (9,5)

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22a

Frustrate miserable retired husband (4)

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23a

Daughter rejected Sicilian hothead poet (5)

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24a

Your setter, behind pub, gets Italian port (4)

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Natter with boring mate beginning to grate (7)

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28a

Plant liable to fail without oxygen (7)

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29a

Gosh! Area in remote road where pigs etc are found (8)

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30a

Unfinished second order for barista (5)

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Down

1d

One might Google "rotten holiday" (3,5)

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2d

Challenger might be fitted with this garment (4,3)

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3d

Friend putting on over a stone (4)

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5d

Cryptically title old film about animals (6,8)

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6d

Money, but no yen? Relax! (4)

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7d

Suitable Dublin or Derry houses (2,5)

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8d

Leave former lover adult film covers (5)

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9d

Complex, intriguing broadcast dragged on, alack (5,3,6)

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15d

Go and get fine cut (5)

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16d

Recorded delivery room for ship (5)

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18d

Breathe audibly like Blackbeard? (8)

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20d

More dangerous runs beginning to intimidate winter sport fan (7)

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21d

American airline told to return dishonest character (1,3,3)

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22d

Inside cafeteria, drinking this? (5)

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25d

Speak about western influence (4)

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26d

Murder victim Abraham Lincoln briefly designated? (4)

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