Telegraph Prize Cryptic #3101

2021-03-28

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1a

Cleaner reprimands mourner (6-7)

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9a

Police force, or its new yard (4,5)

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10a

Rocket scientists heading for landing on a central feature (5)

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11a

Playwright featuring in one's biography, retrospectively (5)

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12a

By the sound of it, viral disease went quickly (4)

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13a

Some pretty poor mistake (4)

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15a

Particle in some science (7)

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17a

Space available, or filling arena? (7)

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18a

Hands down, palms dry evidently? (2,5)

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20a

Time allocated to worshipping flock by upper circle (3,4)

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21a

Girl built for audition? (4)

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22a

Journo back before second public meeting (4)

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23a

Birdieanother one better? (5)

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26a

Use dinosaur egg initially the wrong way (5)

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27a

Negative reaction about small mark (9)

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28a

Helper in white revised political order (5-4,4)

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1d

Church official, less sensitive figure (8,6)

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2d

Family treethose keeping it upright? (5)

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3d

Giddy where one is president (10)

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4d

Case of somebody bandaging cut, drunk (7)

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5d

Very many lacking purpose? (7)

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6d

Kick boat (4)

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7d

Truly is an awful cocktail (5,4)

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8d

Where contents of overturned trolley might roll, in every direction (3,4,3,4)

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14d

After pass, don seems remarkably gracious (8,2)

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16d

Dry, missing quaffing amount of beer? (9)

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19d

Rock maiden's penetrating voice (7)

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20d

Cook coaching without a dish in Italy? (7)

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24d

Cut around base of iron grate (5)

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25d

Source of light lead (4)

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