Telegraph Prize Cryptic #3181

2022-10-09

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1a

Meat's lost on a Greek character (5)

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4a

Moral direction? (5)

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10a

Bald head in heat, unpleasantly warm? (8)

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11a

Englishman who painted cog or wheel, say? (6)

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12a

Rush job (6)

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13a

Good friend on pitch, everywhere (8)

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14a

Remove four, roughly, imprisoned by Egyptian king (4,3)

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16a

Lack of interest in a course ending in misery (6)

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17a

Timing device peters out (6)

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19a

Food like a lobster back in soup (7)

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21a

Privately, American misbehaving (2,6)

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22a

Things ending on balcony, close (6)

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23a

Sticky material in novel crossword (6)

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24a

Florida island's moodeverything depends on it (8)

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25a

Centre card (5)

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26a

Initially petty, impertinent moralist (5)

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2d

Firm uniting man and social worker (7)

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3d

Collecting figures, score three races wrongly (6,8)

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5d

Intuition is thing that's mysterious (7)

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6d

Sensitive issue seeing King Edward in sauna? (3,6)

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7d

Live with earl, oddly bitter? (4)

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8d

Basic foods keep (5-3-6)

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9d

Wellness lacking originally in old PM (6)

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15d

Where glasses sit, precisely (2,3,4)

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18d

Tap water, quite possibly, for athlete (6)

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19d

Firework, sensation (7)

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20d

Sophisticated judge in journalist (7)

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22d

Source of protein in mayo served up (4)

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