Telegraph Prize Cryptic #3352

2026-01-18

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1a

Drained of colour, suddenly (3,2,3,4)

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9a

Halt in trade for landlord, say (9)

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10a

Report about opening of leaf in flower (5)

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11a

Little worse for wear (6)

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12a

Neanderthal figure breaks leg (5-3)

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13a

Regret seeing people from Los Angeles ending in Pontefract (6)

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15a

Fixed indeed, so probably a foregone conclusion? (3-5)

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18a

Rider Haggard's first novel a sermon (8)

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19a

Blight on rank vegetable (6)

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21a

Take time with two vehicles reversing (8)

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23a

Dread playing hit, ostensibly Brothers in Arms, first of all (6)

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26a

Stripe on new pillowcases etc (5)

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27a

Try and see in when blurry, nursing a pain from looking? (9)

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28a

Ice skates not designed for series of passes (6,6)

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Down

1d

Test going round partof the M25? (7)

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2d

Evidently sore after hit on the bottom, one whacked (5)

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3d

Money about right, weapon for charger without contract (9)

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4d

Cover carpet, surface unseen (4)

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5d

Singer, Scot for example, entertaining American individual (8)

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6d

Your bank's shut in town (5)

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7d

Englishman abroad with queen, one's scented (8)

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8d

Loom I fix that conserves power (6)

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14d

Bone thrown in heap on the way out (8)

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16d

Bad taste, pig stuffed with hot Italian food (9)

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17d

Piper cares to play organ (8)

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18d

Plague in shelter regularly, donkey quarantined (6)

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20d

Thingummy that now needs repairing (7)

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22d

Roof blown off farmhouse, sweep (5)

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24d

Brightness initially with shortage in dark (5)

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25d

Embroidered, fake news (4)

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