Telegraph Prize Cryptic #3027

2019-10-27

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Across

7a

Where one type of varnish may be applied, at once (2,3,4)

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8a

Quick blow, and I had cut (5)

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10a

Running backwards, easily beat old racehorse (3,3)

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11a

Schools etc used a complex (8)

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12a

Stop! Revolution won't change that (4,2)

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14a

Admitting suffering, cook ruffled (6)

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16a

Upmarket pound shop! (4)

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17a

Collection of works ending in attic, author unknown (5)

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18a

Merited, by a whisker (4)

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19a

Relative wants us to invest in currency (6)

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21a

Country in North America embraced by both parents (6)

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24a

Get on horse at the start, it repeatedly getting away (3,2,3)

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26a

Layered dessert, nothing much (6)

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27a

Soaked up by escalope, stonking sauce (5)

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28a

Turn hand, getting fly off the handle (2,7)

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Down

1d

Join in the main event before over, all ending (5)

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2d

Comprehensive finished shackling Oxford's principal (8)

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3d

Help at the centre, tackling calltough stuff (6)

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4d

Get a grip with this immoral activity (4)

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5d

African country getting endless correspondence, legislation brought in (6)

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6d

Get girl to imbibe sayfrom this? (9)

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9d

Warming thing in cake (6)

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13d

Glamour model, leg in the air (3-2)

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15d

Range so old, time for a change (9)

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17d

Trick required to cross unspecified gorge (6)

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18d

Caribbean breakfast food: a tin one has opened (8)

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20d

It's a religion this, no messing about! (6)

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22d

Fine, light touch, heavy weight being lifted (3,3)

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23d

Amount of money set aside, don't go under! (5)

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25d

Sell game that's on the up (4)

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