Telegraph Prize Cryptic #3207

2023-04-09

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Across

1a

Each winning (5)

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4a

Party drink, big hit (5)

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10a

Author recreated role and plot (8)

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11a

Country girl's back in an Indian state (6)

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12a

Snatch some shuteye after child (6)

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13a

Very hot oven in arena (8)

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14a

Revolutionary sharing decoration (7)

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16a

Worthless tree-hugging endeavour (6)

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17a

Private near front in theory (6)

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19a

Praise transfer by bank that's returned (7)

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21a

Preference for steak? I applaud you (4,4)

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22a

Fancy horse that's catching leader in race (6)

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23a

An upright character welcomed by worker in woolly hat (6)

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24a

Red flower in front of blue, somewhere to go (8)

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25a

Blade with nick by the ear? (5)

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26a

Voice back in order, one thinks (5)

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Down

2d

Swimmer heading for home going off course (7)

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3d

Are fighters exhausted in this? (3-2,9)

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5d

Discover a little gnu near Thetford (7)

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6d

Letteror card? (9)

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7d

Liquid food thus finished (4)

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8d

Writer of clues, each straight: a cryptic suffocating yours truly (6,8)

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9d

Grapple with first of lines in child's play (6)

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15d

Mouse at home with dog in middle of settee (9)

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18d

German songs told a story: let me think (6)

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19d

Part of foot that is bearing weight in bike stunt (7)

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20d

Sprawling Rome south of intimate Italian city (7)

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22d

Most preferred, Freud and Van Eyck, primarily (4)

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