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Telegraph Cryptic Answers

Friday, 20th October 2023
There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the Telegraph Cryptic crossword on Friday, 20th October 2023. View the answers below..
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Number# Clue Answer
AAcross 1: City where treasure may be stored by bishop, say, and Queen
AAcross 6: Clock set to go backwards
AAcross 9: Food devoured by hippopotamus tastes revolting
AAcross 10: Universe having no origin is absorbing
AAcross 12: Team from 1 Across land here?UNITED KINGDOM
AAcross 14: Denounced cryptic e.g. with dim pun
AAcross 15: A river bordered by bird burrows
AAcross 17: Growth of passion -- 'Mail me back' getting oddly ignored
AAcross 19: Ratty – Favourite Little Creature university student's penned
AAcross 21: Lower chamber standing behind represented false humilitySELF-ABASEMENT
AAcross 24: What might lead to whispers from Wuhan?
AAcross 25: Oxygen contributes to exercising easing stress
AAcross 26: This could be canned music – no energy, but it has a following
AAcross 27: They rush over after wall's destroyed
DDown 1: Bouquet for tech owner who added 'X' on …
DDown 2: … bid to ban candidate?NO-TRUMP
DDown 3: Goal-fest at Everton … could be this home ground!HOUSING ESTATE
DDown 4: Engineer leaves the Spanish geographer's baseSEA LEVEL
DDown 5: He'd blog regularly – pretty good work on screenE-BOOK
DDown 7: Local alcohol delivered for member of the club
DDown 8: Eleventh-hour stay, little to the southLAST-MINUTE
DDown 11: Families may be putting in this reduced model of courseMINIATURE GOLF
DDown 13: Feline – Matisse fancifully captures one that's played upSIAMESE CAT
DDown 16: Pass on portion of sweet, a gel Edward flipped over
DDown 18: Number whose abbreviation would be its square root in Rome
DDown 20: Self-built small ground-level home, not flatANT-HILL
DDown 22: Field that takes an age to turn over
DDown 23: Imprisons writers