Telegraph Prize Cryptic #3018

2019-08-25

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Across

1a

European landmark in Rome, dirt cheap to renovate (3,2,8)

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9a

Well-respected place besieged by a rebel, unfortunately (9)

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10a

Best to dock heading to dwarf planet (5)

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11a

Very fine total (5)

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12a

Stuck in rut, a habitual state (4)

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13a

Sharp dessert (4)

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15a

Bureaucracy, having shifted communist to the right, came to a point (7)

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17a

First stage involves a racket (7)

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18a

Stir as sleep passes (7)

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20a

Italian dish not bad, regularly seen behind bar (7)

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21a

Sound of swine in fine houses (4)

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22a

Dress ripped at top initially, darn it (4)

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23a

Pair of Manx cats love tropical tree (5)

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26a

In conference, check rule (5)

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27a

Clue I get with no working out, making progress slowly and carefully (9)

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28a

Brief success, cook's brilliant moment? (5,2,3,3)

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Down

1d

Where rook may go, affecting everyone (6,3,5)

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2d

Police beginning to enter wood (5)

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3d

Key: use leverage in business (10)

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4d

English lamb finally entering ringspring back? (7)

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5d

Acting as supreme leader in general (7)

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6d

Fatherone after Oscar? (4)

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7d

Auntie and doctor not half wrongchild's right! (9)

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8d

Thug also battered Welshman in old Welsh county (5,9)

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14d

Menu set on end of bench covering item for dinner, perhaps (10)

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16d

Person with complaint, argument that's nothing special? (9)

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19d

Lengthen period of confinement (7)

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20d

Construct one lacking English used (3-4)

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24d

Primate briefly places church above devil (5)

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25d

Old South American occupying most extreme parts of Colombia (4)

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