Telegraph Prize Cryptic #3307

2025-03-09

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Across

1a

Description of unfinished cake, perhaps, spotted (7)

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5a

Place for patient with bad plague (7)

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9a

Careful eater, say, in vehicle (5)

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10a

Adopting change, more than one friend thinks deeply (9)

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11a

State where African oil spilled (10)

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12a

Exam welcomed by professor, always (4)

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14a

More than one problem arises with banter that's out of order (12)

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18a

Developing rebel missing at the front (12)

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21a

Red not often seen (4)

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22a

Two possibilities served with notice, roughly (4,2,4)

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25a

Poor work adding chicken to pan (9)

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26a

Dark element encapsulating minimum of levity (5)

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27a

Inhalation's ending with a rushsnuff taken like that (7)

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28a

Awfully dry heatadd water (7)

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Down

1d

Beginner can't get a grip, it seems? (6)

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2d

Fastener caught up on leg, unfortunately (6)

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3d

Tidied up of course, in describing "spruce" say? (10)

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4d

Object bird found in centre of Madrid (5)

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5d

China supports offensive game (9)

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6d

See a lover, fruity thing (4)

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7d

Group of religious followers changes around Old Testament (8)

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8d

Lethargic, having lost record? (8)

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13d

Lawful position where one may be taken for a ride? (10)

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15d

At first not out of it? I join forces (9)

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16d

Underwater creature, one fish in net hauled up (8)

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17d

Great thinker thus requires a load of beer! (8)

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19d

Spanish dish bound to be served up with half of lamb (6)

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20d

Sounding like iron, for example, steel (6)

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23d

Land in foxhole (5)

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24d

Reportedly single person (4)

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