Telegraph Prize Cryptic #31079

2025-11-08

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Across

1a

New Avengers agent, lethal (5,3)

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5a

What acne treatments claim to do for tyrant (6)

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9a

One French court sitting in modest flat (8)

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10a

African's some boxer with no English (6)

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12a
27a

American in The Ritz: all obey volatile film star (9,6)

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13a

Minions abandoning southern nation (5)

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14a

Elderly fumed? Not at first (4)

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16a

Job so described in Costa I stupidly left (7)

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19a

Reach that is very limited by pain (7)

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21a

Dog-sledder's forwarding address in grim US hamlet (4)

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24a

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25a

Mistake is admitted by the heartless bully (9)

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27a

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28a
24a

Bolshevik leader's mandrill I've trained at home (8,5)

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29a

Trouble drinking spirit in one strange situation (1,3,2)

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30a

Separate book top class doesn't need (8)

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Down

1d

Perhaps lacking sleep, second son leaves city (6)

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2d

Artist on generally gloomy film (6)

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3d

Rate changed to accommodate ten more (5)

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4d

Fool an RAF commander? (7)

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6d

Like Lassie, last of two animals put first? (9)

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7d

Where chemist works fast to dress wound (8)

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8d

Complication involving Rhode Island figure (8)

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11d

Resistance units sent for King Charles? (4)

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15d

Wife never climbing in pleasant forest (9)

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17d

Servant saving 50 leads cheers in capital city (8)

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18d

Much obliged to a hunky criminal (5,3)

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20d

French are binding feet for amphibians (4)

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21d

Mrs Bale lost sanity (7)

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22d

Time to stop that chap, an assassin (6)

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23d

Echo in valley for dragon-slayer (6)

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26d

Ruling class (5)

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