Sunday Telegraph Cryptic No 3158
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This puzzle was published on 1st May 2022
BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
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Across
1a Bridge across one country (5)
SPAIN – SPAN (bridge) ‘across’ I (one)
4a Rubbish out on a lawn, initially (5)
OFFAL – OFF (out) on A (from the clue) L (lawn initially)
10a Offensive item in news report (8)
BULLETIN – BULLET (offensive item) IN (from the clue)
11a Low communist tied up (6)
MOORED – MOO (low meaning noise made by cattle) RED (communist)
12a Become a criminal, shining light! (6)
BEACON – BE A CON = become a criminal
13a Friendly leaders of African tribe parting eventually (8)
INTIMATE – the ‘leaders’ of African Tribe ‘parting’ IN TIME (eventually)
14a Excellent, icing on the cake? (7)
TOPPING – An old slang word for excellent or something to put on a cake, icing being an example of the options available
16a Fancy ‘ooter polished off (6)
ORNATE – ‘ORN (horn or hooter) ATE (polished off)
17a Part of song about Egyptian god (6)
CHORUS – C (circa, about) HORUS (Egyptian god)
19a ‘Fresh Air’, song title in Italy (7)
SIGNORA – An anagram (fresh) of AIR SONG
21a Creamy white oil man stirred, containing silver (8)
MAGNOLIA – An anagram (stirred) of OIL MAN ‘containing’ AG (chemical symbol for silver)
22a Drink with tongue, did you say? (6)
LIQUOR – A homophone (did you say) of LICKER (tongue)
23a Priest sozzled in bar (6)
STRIPE – An anagram (sozzled) of PRIEST
24a Those on trolley perhaps, anxious when lying back (8)
DESSERTS- A reversal (when lying back) of STRESSED (anxious)
25a Yet, anything but sparkling? (5)
STILL – An adverb meaning yet or something not sparkling or effervescent
26a Partial input, terrible total (5)
UTTER – Hidden in part of inpUT TERrible
Down
2d Judicious puritan not disheartened (7)
PRUDENT – PRUDE (puritan) and NoT, disheartened or without its middle letter
3d Without supposedly responsible adults driving train, pair sent off the rails (2,4,8)
IN LOCO PARENTIS – IN LOCO (driving train) and an anagram (off the rails) of PAIR SENT
5d Sport that may be dividing neighbours? (7)
FENCING – Something which may divide properties
6d If so, lifting of dumb-bell might be easy for man on moon (9)
ARMSTRONG – If his ARM was STRONG, a man who visited the moon might have no trouble lifting a dumb-bell
7d Rock where hard seeds turned up (4)
STUN – A reversal (turned up) of NUTS (hard seeds)
8d Invasion and occupation: boy on mission to claim crown, primarily (6,8)
NORMAN CONQUEST – NORMAN (boy) ON QUEST to ‘claim’ C (the primary letter of Crown)
9d Seven steep rocks on peak in Tanzania (6)
SEPTET – An anagram (rocks) of STEEP goes on the ‘peak’ or first letter of Tanzania
15d Five with fresh binding, broke (9)
INSOLVENT – INSOLENT (fresh) ‘binding’ V (Roman numeral for five)
18d Scottish team in English county, by the sound of it? (6)
HEARTS – A Scottish football team’s name sounds like the English county of Herts
19d Carefully look boy up, newspaper seller? (7)
SCANDAL – SCAN (carefully look) followed by a reversal (up) of LAD (boy)
20d A job on outskirts of Lilongwe for evangelist (7)
APOSTLE – A (From the clue) POST (job) goes on the ‘outskirts’ of LlongwE
22d Rich drunkard (4)
LUSH – Double definition
3*/4*…
liked 19D “Carefully look boy up, newspaper seller? (7)”