Telegraph Prize Cryptic #3088

2020-12-27

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1a

Let down sack? (10)

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6a

Brute sent over to collect large weight (4)

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9a

Nicest ripe bananas for beneficiaries (10)

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10a

Change, with turner turning? (4)

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12a

Weakling, politician joining women's group (4)

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13a

Sailor and apostle wearing heavy cloth (9)

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15a

Dancing, skin becoming paler? (8)

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16a

A fop on top! (2,4)

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18a

Lay out fashionable underwear (6)

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20a

Desirable thing to bank a metalthis one's precious! (8)

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23a

Note Wagnerian work bubbling up (9)

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24a

See the numbers drop away, every last one (4)

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26a

For example, duck in cricket perhaps? (4)

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27a

Restriction left impression (10)

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28a

Very little in supermarket in York (4)

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29a

When one sees the most tourists spring up, possibly? (4,6)

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Down

1d

Challenge coming up in better adventure (4)

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2d

Bit dry, crackers on it (7)

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3d

Kitchen device fixed to tap with purpose (3-2,7)

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4d

This writer after clear message that's implicit (8)

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5d

Essence in tea urn, brewed (6)

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7d

Nanny eluding shambles (7)

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8d

In precarious position upon thin end of branch? (3,2,1,4)

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11d

Recording new test case, listen in on evidence, firstly (8,4)

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14d

Remove flimsy tube attached to ceiling (10)

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17d

Slowas a bullet? (8)

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19d

Energy drinks tasting awful initially in organic compound (7)

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21d

Rest put on top of food in waste collectors (7)

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22d

Gear selected by swimmer cyclin' over island (6)

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25d

Article working for unknown author (4)

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