Telegraph Prize Cryptic #3345

2025-11-30

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8a

Vicar's ciggy? Good Lord! (4,5)

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10a

Crawling in a bath (5)

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11a

Transformation of said zoo, fetching bull or lion, say? (4,2,3,6)

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12a

Drip in alehouse returning for drinking session (5-2)

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13a

Into Niger I tread, African country (7)

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15a

Vacate castle in the airand land? (4,4,2,5)

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19a

Manage back, then make notes, in hospital career (7)

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22a

A Spanish gentleman passing outlaw in desert (7)

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24a

Sports field where card shown after poor quality delivery (8,7)

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26a

Expression of sympathy arrived (5)

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27a

Small vehicle rotates, we being turned (3-6)

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Down

1d

A little cloth used like that (4)

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2d

On solid ground, a positive, by the sound of it? (6)

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3d

Leader with the right to push a revolutionary west (8)

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4d

Case of suite Frenchman composed (6)

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5d

Old plugs sealing off fuel (8)

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6d

Posh nosh coming through into saloon, say (6)

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7d

Smart nestling brushing off tail (4)

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9d

Space dock set up (7)

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12d

Streaky painter? (5)

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14d

A small chicken pasty (5)

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16d

Slobbering football player? (8)

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17d

Broken tap, order liquid from duct (4,4)

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18d

Soldier once feeding duck to ginger tom (7)

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20d

Less cautious 12 Down? (6)

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21d

Stew let go, popping in a sweet (6)

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23d

Stupefied, all inside Alcatraz having escaped into a sea (6)

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24d

Cask, however, picked up? (4)

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25d

Miserable sovereign I had flipped over (4)

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