Telegraph Prize Cryptic #3228

2023-09-03

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Across

1a

Up the creek taking a steam bath? (2,3,5)

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6a

Worshipped figure in deity often legendary, first of all (4)

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10a

Mark delicate flier (5)

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11a

Party bringing action with ugly fight (9)

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12a

Sadden detective and spook (8)

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13a

Frenchman and wife begin again (5)

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15a

PC in seaside resort doffing cap (5-2)

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17a

Fringes in party, deep red (7)

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19a

Reportedly red-hot fruit (7)

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21a

Pepper money invested in sugar plant (7)

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22a

Lift inoperative ultimately, yet to arrive (5)

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24a

Austere day as little jerk (8)

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27a

English after opening in ball game (9)

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28a

Some invocation in the ordinal (5)

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29a

One introduced to explosive colour (4)

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30a

Beauty in Romeo overcome by small-minded behaviour (10)

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Down

1d

Creep at the altar, say? (4)

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2d

Knockout, low sound before bell? (9)

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3d

Hike from bottom of gradient over bank (5)

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4d

Hopeful, having scratched foot, for basic medicine (7)

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5d

Cold? It's bitter when flipping over, stretching (7)

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7d

Lower in qualifying, I edge upwards (5)

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8d

Player in red? (4-6)

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9d

Scale of crime otherwise confined to hostility (8)

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14d

Pair of creatures, one of those in English willow? (7,3)

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16d

Cross about U-turn of assistant ref, perversion of justice (8)

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18d

Feeling one put into words (9)

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20d

Glass, one about to smash? (7)

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21d

Show trick, surefire success (7)

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23d

Gas in mythological vessel, nitrogen (5)

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25d

Wrong road for biblical mount (5)

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26d

What's here in truth, I swear (4)

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