The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 3,227 - Aug 27 2023

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Bachelor blessing primate BABOON
Bishop resides in a street in foreign parts ABROAD
Building to do then, precisely ONTHEDOT
Christmas prize-giver losing heart NOEL
Cold ice originally for hot food CHILLI
Cool score, result secured TRENDY
Crude programme on the radio? COARSE
Cured meat in pate can't spread PANCETTA
Fantastic plane, the jumbo ELEPHANT
Field circled by toboggan was scintillating SPARKLED
Finish off extra post SPAR
Food in time at sea EATS
Gripping instrument aimed at fungi FORCEPS
Guy going grey, coping MANAGING
Heart, say: tick in it once erratic EMOTICON
Hold on, pull yourself together! GETAGRIP
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Initiation of fear, certainly -- with this? FRIGHT
Journey allowed, one of three TRIPLET
Just arrived, cake for youth INFANCY
Laugh and cry SCREAM
Lift second whale HUMPBACK
Painful thing, banal performance? CORN
Pig meat more ill-advised? RASHER
Publication penned by Godfather, monster DRAGON
Smart with scarf on, acting the peacock? BOASTING
Something to play, violin part? BRIDGE
Sport taken up by thousands, in netball TENNIS
Sudden thought to put lid on food CAPRICE
Tied oddly, the cardinal bound TETHERED
Two lots of meat cooked, one on the same side TEAMMATE
Type of mineral, gem almost broken by two strikes GRAPHITE
Warning why cue proving useless? TIPOFF