Telegraph Prize Cryptic #3286

2024-10-13

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1a

Don't abandon religious faction, pet! (5,6)

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10a

Lifting machine, this designed to carry overhead, primarily (5)

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11a

Journalist and I reflected in little car window (9)

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12a

A world leader unable to play the game? (9)

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13a

Girl making one sigh, looking back (5)

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14a

Run, jogging over nearby fields (6)

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16a

Game with trout and eel in a stew (8)

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18a

Name is buried in trench, sadly (8)

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20a

Device marking gaps where outlines reversed (6)

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23a

Jersey, perhaps, nearer knees? (5)

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24a

New can I filled with a sauce somewhere in Central America (9)

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26a

Lecture theatre's principal man in singer (7-2)

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27a

Soft leather charged with energy (5)

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28a

Cleaner tells of sand all over the place (6,5)

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2d

Dye around a stain (5)

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3d

Fielder, one getting cold, perhaps? (7)

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4d

Hammered pin set for arch (6)

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5d

Teams question a fair set-up? (8)

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6d

Mark felt inwardly rank (7)

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7d

Composition, I felt, caught me off balance (3,5,5)

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8d

Piece of music arising in a short movement, not religious (8)

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9d

Hit riding wave, one going in while others out? (13)

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15d

Fit as a fiddle? I suppose so (4,4)

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17d

Party wife leaves when thing degenerates (3,5)

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19d

Fish swimming in sea across road (7)

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21d

Soldier with single cut in shade (7)

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22d

Degree certificate for example, odd parts of such on register (6)

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25d

Fancy gateau's topping uses nuts (5)

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