Telegraph Cryptic Answers

Tuesday, 12th September 2023

There are 14 across clues and 16 down clues for the Telegraph Cryptic crossword on Tuesday, 12th September 2023. View the answers below..

The Answers

Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Difficulty for leaders of BBC Lineker epitomised, maybe
AAcross 5:	Boats – some cross less evasively on the way back
AAcross 9:	Caught Oscar twice with a drink
AAcross 10:	English knight opposing battle
AAcross 11:	Hollow feeling
AAcross 12:	Shake second barrel
AAcross 14:	Struggling in maths set? No wonder!
AAcross 18:	A trusty vine I scrambled up	AT UNIVERSITY
AAcross 21:	Finishes repairs with month to go
AAcross 22:	Command soldiers wearing magenta pants
AAcross 25:	Mock student leaving bar
AAcross 26:	Complain an election's somewhat foolish
AAcross 27:	Polish chap's rubbish job?
AAcross 28:	Show excited guests around centre of Bangkok
DDown 1:	Eat in the open air breeze
DDown 2:	Live in old vessel in outskirts of city
DDown 3:	What Napoleon showed the French before he'd Paris reconstructed
DDown 4:	Bumps into this writer and gets head scratched
DDown 5:	Moral weakness reduced Conservatives' wins
DDown 6:	Type of music only on the radio
DDown 7:	Allowed goal, securing championship
DDown 8:	Might get thorns out with nothing missing
DDown 13:	Having a talk about Alice's mad acquaintance in golf
DDown 15:	Running record brought up in speech
DDown 16:	Brave before prison sentence makes you quail?	GAME BIRD
DDown 17:	Small lingerie covering right bits
DDown 19:	Editor upset with blunt argument
DDown 20:	Witness most portly female getting abandoned
DDown 23:	Makes fun of topless relatives
DDown 24:	Friendly with a Republican male