Telegraph Prize Cryptic #3041

2020-02-02

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Across

1a

Shilling cut, save (5)

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4a

Two tens added together for mark (5)

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10a

Interval moments back, when lunch may be served? (8)

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11a

A river is a beauty (6)

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12a

Retired minister is pocketing fifty coins (6)

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13a

Papers in sets in different order (8)

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14a

Single out character sometimes dropped in language (7)

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16a

Guest at banquet missing starterwhen chocolate's on the menu? (6)

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17a

Ancient city quarter in South Africa (6)

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19a

German bomb planted, dropped in (7)

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21a

Stop referring to injury (8)

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22a

Prosaic activity of woodworm? (6)

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23a

Little time at the moment for insignificant player (6)

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24a

Tonga is built around a capital city (8)

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25a

Female creature scoffing last of quarry, a predator (5)

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26a

Nimble cartwheel, I gathered, in partial rotation? (5)

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Down

2d

Assumption in force inspiring me after uprising (7)

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3d

Overrating gin, I stirred up a tonic (14)

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5d

Fast mover, one on the fiddle by the sound of it? (7)

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6d

Again deal with study before shift (9)

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7d

Audibly crude bellow (4)

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8d

Money excellent following strikes (6,8)

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9d

Paper uses it in circulation (6)

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15d

On a grotty street feeling poorly (2,1,3,3)

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18d

Lyrical image featuring every other part of forest (6)

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19d

Flesh is old in type of diagram (7)

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20d

Irish county finished with colleen (7)

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22d

Gang not allowed to be heard? (4)

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