Telegraph Prize Cryptic #3182

2022-10-16

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1a

Do –­ or do without hot food? (3,3,7)

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9a

An unreal plaything with no strings attached? (3,6)

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10a

Appropriate cook (5)

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11a

Flipped over say, darkish bug (5)

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12a

Four points indicated by needle, stitched together (4)

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13a

Wet dress and muddy pants, first of all (4)

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15a

Film enemy stealing wild goat (7)

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17a

Word in poem is surprisingly about right (7)

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18a

Ex-Wimbledon champ on team (7)

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20a

Disembowelledlike a chicken? (7)

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21a

Place it inside sausage's skin (4)

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22a

Roman goddess requiring month off, originally (4)

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23a

Square in La Paz rebuilt (5)

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26a

Leap over underground chamber (5)

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27a

Athletes winning in second team? (7-2)

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28a

A stepladder designed to get me on board boat (6,7)

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Down

1d

Political campaign in March, terribly nasty (5,9)

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2d

Tin not closed, colour wasted (5)

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3d

Gathering in? (5,5)

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4d

Not entirely uplifting process, it amuses artist (7)

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5d

Secure wreck (5,2)

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6d

Range observed in clinical psychology (4)

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7d

Exaggerate, performing mad satire (9)

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8d

Mischievous child, one using cane on swimmer? (14)

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14d

Opening part, representative (10)

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16d

Evident getting behind, win at cards (9)

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19d

Unremarkable Renault taken for a spin (7)

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20d

Reason for dregs in coffee pot? (7)

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24d

Tea service available, initially wheeled round (5)

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25d

Macho man leaving academic research unfinished (4)

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