Telegraph Prize Cryptic #31199

2026-03-28

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Across

1a

Concerned with current vote for two American states (10)

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6a

Cross country from which one must be excluded (4)

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10a

Scavenger has endless hunger within (5)

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11a

Very nasty soup, so no one ordered (9)

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12a

See 8 Down

13a

Such power from uranium, protected by new patent? (7)

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14a

Civvies are on manoeuvres in defective vessel (8,4)

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18a

Aspiring VPs working with couples (7,5)

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21a

Company shown way switched men on board (7)

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23a

Good brood display brilliance (7)

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24a

Sailor from Muscat perhaps returned with a lover (9)

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25a
17d

Yellow with embarrassment? (3,2,4,4)

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26a

Ultimately consuming goulash made me fat (4)

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27a

Fewer than twenty in foreground (10)

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Down

1d

Itches to become involved in moral science (6)

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2d

Shutter protecting lens etc (6)

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3d

I'm grateful actor Tom wears maillot in dancing (6,1,7)

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4d

Threatened little devil with termination (9)

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5d

Like birds initially imported in a commercial vehicle (5)

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7d

Go to collect rubbish for example in female ward (8)

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8d
12a

Bad hip concerns kingbeing this? (2,6,7)

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9d

Real party animals, great stirrers (8,6)

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15d

Drink brewed in Ogden area (9)

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16d

First-rate working out? (8)

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17d

See 25 Across

19d

Party organised without MDMA, alas! (4,2)

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20d

Suspicion surrounds Beethoven's Ninth as dance music (6)

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22d

Last of liquidtip it down sink (5)

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