Telegraph Prize Cryptic #3296

2024-12-22

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1a

Slip upin the slips? (4,3,4)

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9a

Huge battle with theory, oddly (7)

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10a

Gorgeous tailoring my dear! (6)

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12a

Female feline worried sister, nursing young at last (7)

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13a

What about mine, a page for final inscription? (7)

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14a

Group or classical team, eight then first of all (5)

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15a

Awkward swerving, get in lane (9)

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17a

Fruit, low-fat, focus of attention (9)

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20a

Smell second smell (5)

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22a

Craft with little time to follow what's pulled by reindeer? (7)

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24a

A stripe lit up, maroon (7)

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25a

Small river runs into vapour (6)

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26a

Crowd controller great as sprayed around (4,3)

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27a

Kind that's second-rate, I gathered (11)

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Down

2d

On luxury flight (7)

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3d

Very cold at death's door? (9)

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4d

Bush ultimately on borderis it? (5)

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5d

Queen's home, old style (7)

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6d

Tibetan priest embracing awful dance (7)

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7d

Ice, in the end, still cold (11)

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8d

Man in dark, by the sound of it? (6)

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11d

Still European discussed close result (5,6)

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16d

Old vehicle on farm, cooler (9)

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18d

Great musician in store playing after mother (7)

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19d

Only able to crawl then after pub crawl? (7)

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20d

Glue required, alas net coming unstuck? (7)

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21d

I'm going in to hug daughter, kind of blue? (6)

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23d

Tiny character I had, like a mouse? (5)

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