TELEGRAPH CRYPTIC

RESOURCEFULNESS

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Drunk uses straw? That’s a bit irritating! (6) Isolated Greek character in society role (3,5) Give cheeky response? It’s part of Andrew’s nature! (6,4)

Fortune — not half! — made by cheat in game (4)

Jump from island with exclamation of triumph (8)

Religious types contributing to British industry (6) One may be found on head (4) It’s tricky to demean a worm (8) Always tucking into cod maybe, being slightly ill (8)

Name given to poem making a sort of point (4) Grass to have a bad effect on sheep (6) Across lake, it’s seriously stony (8) Foreigner deprived of a legal right (4) Walk round — policy that could give one bodily exercise (10) Woman with things to sell suddenly (8) Fish in river that enters lake (6)

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Dye found in lichen naturally (5) Lacking of courage when Noel is skating, it seems? (9)

Thus resistance precedes quarrel and sadness (6)

A gent with rakishness, terribly unfaithful type (5,2,3,5) Like earnings put into the house? (4-4) What sounds like heap on tall structure (5) Left-winger getting ‘arrassed returned (9) Surgery seen as possible choice over time (9)

Underground worker Helen needs air circulating round, right? (9)

Celebrity flirts with a maiden initially — naughty! (4,4)

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Friend upset over cat perhaps in a wee flap (6)

With our enjoyable vacation finally over we’ll turn up and begin again (5)

Language of love undermining Heather (5)

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