Telegraph Prize Cryptic #3023

2019-09-29

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1a

Volume better to the west of a large town (8)

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5a

Grow thinner when knocked back, eating nothing (6)

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9a

Mostly offshore? (2,3,4)

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11a

North American lecture slightly short on delivery (5)

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12a

French port cold I'm afraid to say: one wrapped up (6)

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13a

Italian name lies in tatters (8)

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15a

Together, still (2,3,4,4)

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18a

Struggling, you and she starvedtime to get fat? (6,7)

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22a

Spread European butter the wrong way on end of baguette (8)

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23a

Supplier of punch inspiring one to join a party (6)

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26a

Painting of reversible sheet (5)

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27a

Nomadic Romanians in small country (3,6)

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28a

Amount multiplied by ten invested in film (6)

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29a

Trouble in North Yorkshire town, peacekeepers sent ahead (8)

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Down

1d

Note bird talking (8)

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2d

Last to sleep, slow to get upbit of a bloomer? (5)

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3d

Female garment requiring some fabric, hem is extended (7)

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4d

Net, section drawn up (4)

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6d

Tongue injection, one beyond a joke (7)

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7d

Cricket side beginning to move into the final stages, recovering (2,3,4)

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8d

Banking official, one narrating story? (6)

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10d

Sweet thing I put in message (8)

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14d

Brandy very appealing initially, as cold unfortunately outside (8)

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16d

First flier in top titles, rewritten (4,5)

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17d

Hundred cuts say distributed over extra wood (8)

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19d

Exhausted, exercise not working (3-4)

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20d

Those people briefly, I reckon, in Muslim kingdom (7)

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21d

Crush spirit before it's raised (6)

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25d

Privy to information, nobody of note initially (2,2)

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