Telegraph Prize Cryptic #31169

2026-02-21

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1a

You and I maybe shaking home with passion (4,7)

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7a

Individual lines by Shakespeare possibly showing malice (3-4)

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8a

Cooked lamb, red, mottled and streaky (7)

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10a

Charge for perhaps stopping support (8)

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11a

Eating nothing tired out my boss (6)

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13a

Smooth playboy (4)

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14a

Ways to reach the next level? (10)

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16a

Old room for monk in Parisian church? Goodness! (10)

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18a

It’s found in atlas, I assume(4)

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21a

next to Belgium and Spain, right? (6)

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22a

Through prayer, god provides large amount (8)

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24a

Issue title sent back with a note (7)

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25a

Something appreciated by tender kissers? (3,4)

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26a

Broadcast inside team’s ground (11)

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1d

Drinking bad wine? One’s quite high (7)

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2d

Sort of over girl (6)

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3d

Confidence sees me left unhappy (4-6)

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4d

A male excited about cat (4)

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5d

Brussels tracks detectives turning up with English woman trapped in hell (8)

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6d

Recognises regiment commandeering large truck (7)

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7d

The compiler’s reworked preamble, with puzzle ultimately hard to get through (11)

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9d

Ventures sadly to back and arm deserted city (3,2,6)

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12d

Choose a white plant, we hear, to make chutney (10)

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15d

Jokes about boy beginning to race in Top Gear? (4,4)

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17d

Portion of food rat sucks upit’s normally yellow (7)

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19d

Men in field getting somewhere to keep stuff (7)

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20d

More work, you said, on cracked patio (6)

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23d

Ambassador leading decentralised rule in this place (4)

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