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DT 31038

Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 31038

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Welcome from Ilkley, where we now have the best butchers in the country. And happy World Rhino Day — here’s one we saw yesterday at the Art of the Brick exhibition in Leeds (also on in Montreal and Schenectady):

a rhino made out of Lego

(You can click to enlarge this photo, and the other Lego pictures in the hints below.)

Today’s Telegraph crossword has a helpful grid and accessible wordplay, but also several words unfamiliar to me — so it’s probably an ideal puzzle for somebody who’s a beginner at cryptic crosswords but has a good vocabulary.

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