Telegraph Prize Cryptic #3317

2025-05-18

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7a

Idiotic shower maybe overwhelmed by praise (9)

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8a

Funny figure inspiring laughter, ultimately (5)

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10a

Recording device captivating old space traveller (6)

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11a

Roasting nuts, one pulling out all the stops? (8)

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12a

Colluding businesses spilling 3 Down (6)

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14a

Miscreant used to being expelled (6)

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16a

Perfect confection (4)

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17a

Express love in immorality (5)

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18a

Reportedly, something from the bakery delivered (4)

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19a

Move a whopper stopper! (6)

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21a

Prodigy I observed in class (6)

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24a

Chosen design as ornate (8)

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26a

Journalist after those things on the same topic (6)

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27a

Note collected by myself, I've remembered (5)

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28a

See a broken canister (9)

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Down

1d

Where flag found in colour (5)

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2d

Dinghy I felt designed to save pilots etc (4,4)

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3d

Wine from Irish county ending in goblet (6)

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4d

Northern city in Liverpool soaked up (4)

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5d

World where leader of universe ruled over us (6)

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6d

Wreckedas walls might be? (9)

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9d

Region surprisingly blank (6)

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13d

On the ground, or up in the air, though not originally (5)

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15d

Diamonds, say, thousand in gold case (5,4)

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17d

One circled by drawer of diagrams, a capital city (6)

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18d

Dark-haired animal defending web (8)

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20d

One splitting fortune? Um, hang about! (6)

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22d

In decline the results lower (6)

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23d

Archfiend drew breath when rising up (5)

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25d

Bowl a beauty? (4)

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