Telegraph Prize Cryptic #3255

2024-03-10

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Across

8a

Greek character against Italian wine (7)

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10a

French boy crushes fruit flat (4-1-5)

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11a

Shaft left in sharp tool (4)

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12a

How electrical devices may be, sometimes (2,3,3)

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14a

River where a bloke seen touring Australia doing the backstroke? (6)

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15a

Fantasy blue dish? (3,2,3,3)

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19a

Losing head, crab nipped animal (6)

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20a

Foreign money invested in bank not long ago (8)

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22a

Test changed as you were reading proofs (4)

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23a

Good certainly to hole ball, finallyon this? (4,6)

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25a

Deny increase, for example (7)

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26a

Tree: discuss planting one (7)

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Down

1d

State elected huntress (7)

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2d

Originally seductive this utter dreamboat, Adonis! (4)

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3d

Pageant rubbish as well (6)

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4d

Cord in various holes, super! (8)

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5d

Pitfall with loopy family (6,4)

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6d

Bird atop cheese (7)

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9d

Choux pastry item with poor trifle unfortunately ending on plate (11)

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13d

Nerve-shredding unhygienic practice? (4-6)

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16d

Key altering when retuned (8)

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17d

Flier captures a little green man (7)

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18d

Painful thing being second-class celeb? (7)

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21d

Birdbrained bird? (6)

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24d

Standard quantity stashed away by leprechaun, I think (4)

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