Telegraph Prize Cryptic #3152

2022-03-20

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1a

Meeting finding improbable treatment for software? (11)

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9a

Cheerful, just like some pianos (7)

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10a

Chatterbox adoring senseless babbling, initially breaking silence (6)

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12a

Stop chorus (7)

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13a

Register years on earth, digging (7)

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14a

Ultimately invisible, brainbox went to school for praise (5)

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15a

A rave gone mad, usually (2,7)

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17a

Interior designer, one delivering Christmas lecture? (9)

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20a

Seaside platform hosting piano player (5)

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22a

Snacks primate found in tins (7)

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24a

Container seen through opening, illuminated (7)

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25a

Attack a small boat (6)

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26a

Breathe life into a friend touring Northern Ireland (7)

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27a

Items here collected by mum and dad, afterthoughts (11)

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Down

2d

Narrated story of wolf blowing houses down? That's hairy! (7)

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3d

Unqualified, twice dismissed? (3-3-3)

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4d

Dark near end of street (5)

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5d

Wine merchant briefly under doctor (7)

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6d

A steeplechaser at the back, once more upended, falls (7)

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7d

Every diamond, for example, in area on ship? (11)

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8d

Return for match (6)

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11d

Big names born in Leicester, I gathered (11)

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16d

Comic operas, brilliant atmosphere (9)

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18d

Chap oddly claiming a foul after cut in card game (7)

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19d

Take position of agent on thread (7)

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20d

Word in mantra brought into force (7)

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21d

Supporter in thrall I picked up (6)

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23d

Separate city in Croatia (5)

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