Telegraph Prize Cryptic #31103

2025-12-06

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Across

1a

Tea garden's end in violent storm (7)

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5a
9a

Afflicted here, espy malefactors He put on hoof? (3,4,8,2,3,10)

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9a

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10a

Crossed unruly rocker entertaining party people (9)

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12a

Almost obstruct United Nations? (4)

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14a

Choreographed Nilotic dance apparently random (12)

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18a

Annoyed assistant of actor that's Portia, say (5-7)

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21a

Most appropriate wager brings in shilling (4)

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22a

Deranged family that could cause downfall (6,4)

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25a

End to battling bad weather conditions on a river (9)

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26a

Some mountain troops opening passage (5)

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27a

Cooler underground? (7)

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28a

Pit worker against a goddess (7)

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Down

1d

More perhaps from zero used in complex maths (6)

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2d

Regular customer parking right inside a lot (6)

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3d

Work over time and put up music venue (5,5)

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4d

Smart abstaining in vote against (5)

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5d

St Martins put out broadcasts (9)

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6d

Old PM in drug study (4)

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7d

Black fish in hotel, skinned, well past prime (8)

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8d

Understandable Irish uprising English mock (8)

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13d

Voltaire, Candide , at last deciphered: new book with 5 17 9 11 (10)

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15d

Resistance soldiers in country telling tales (9)

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16d

Weapon holder: one who won't strike Shakespeare? (8)

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19d

Curry was one of fish and rice originally (6)

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20d

An African ape shunning hostile goat (6)

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23d

Sailor turned West to the side of a ship (5)

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24d

Man for example lives on lake's shores (4)

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