Telegraph Prize Cryptic #3354

2026-02-01

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8a

It's tricky to handle this stew, small amount unfinished (3,6)

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10a

Wanton ladies and gentlemen, chaste finally (5)

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11a

A bit short, and being tweaked? (7,3,5)

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12a

Lines read in poem by nipper recalled (7)

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13a

In the zone where margarine might go? (2,1,4)

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15a

Celestial body, if not OK, hit rocks by the way (4,2,5,2,2)

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19a

Conference remains a shambles (7)

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22a

Deliver collection, payment about right (3,4)

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24a

Consider deposit? (4,4,7)

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26a

Exercisebit required with that? (5)

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27a

Vacuous clerk read through review of a poorer musical show (4,5)

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Down

1d

Might one make a little lunch efficiently? (4)

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2d

Tile floor in bathroom, accomplishin' nothing outside (6)

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3d

Special agents with it, most sharp (8)

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4d

I see love in abridged novel, alas and alack! (3-3)

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5d

Fold and lift up thick biscuit (8)

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6d

Island endured occupation originally (6)

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7d

Network I mustn't tell! (4)

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9d

Article on more fanciful proposition (7)

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12d

County revenue earned abroad (5)

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14d

Drink, second of the two unfinished (5)

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16d

Real book, one turned up in jumble (8)

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17d

Acne isn't treated, for example (8)

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18d

King's ransom assigned to music (7)

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20d

Triumph: manufacture that thing (4,2)

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21d

Step down, or go upstairs? (6)

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23d

Wrong counts in US city (6)

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24d

Turner in watercolours? (4)

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25d

Feeder in fact eating! (4)

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