Telegraph Prize Cryptic #3004

2019-05-19

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7a

Company working to split proportion of profitthat's hairy and tough! (7)

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8a

Old chip halved inside cheese roll (7)

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10a

Crazy reason one's attached to the train (10)

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11a

Mouth, bit to the left (4)

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12a

Boy admitting defeat where terms are laid out (8)

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14a

Drunk near TV in pub (6)

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15a

Dogmatic rambling in a director (11)

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19a

Eat, tongue-in-cheek by the sound of it? (6)

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20a

Faculty certainly welcomed by rowing team (8)

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22a

Feature of Sicily has some cachet, naturally (4)

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23a

Old playwright: is he afraid of Santa? (4,6)

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25a

Go low to puncture vessel (7)

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26a

Possible reason for dropping it in juice (7)

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Down

1d

No clarity initially in spy lens (7)

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2d

Game explorer of the thirteenth century (4)

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3d

Copper bottom cut from freezing dome (6)

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4d

Having secured contract finally, author in need of a drink (5,3)

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5d

Composer not me, unfortunately: another composer (10)

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6d

Art recreated within you for public performance (7)

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9d

Yellow bloom, as it happens, crimson (4-7)

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13d

Builder so set on man getting sacked (10)

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16d

Rhea, for example, bird on a headland (8)

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17d

Sainted: devilish as an alternative (7)

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18d

Entering days of September, start of season dry (7)

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21d

Lead first of children into English class (6)

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24d

Signal breaker, for example (4)

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