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Telegraph Cryptic Answers

Monday, 8th January 2024
There are 14 across clues and 16 down clues for the Telegraph Cryptic crossword on Monday, 8th January 2024. View the answers below..

The Answers

Number# Clue Answer
AAcross 1: Film amazing Thailand win against ItalyWITHNAIL AND I
AAcross 9: Unaware of plain surrounding lake and island
AAcross 10: Love, as it happens, oily fruit
AAcross 11: Holding cracked tureen
AAcross 12: Staunch supporter rightly depressedTRUE BLUE
AAcross 13: Talk inconsequentially with religious teacher before start of term
AAcross 15: Important stuff
AAcross 18: Hotel guest let team inside
AAcross 19: Improvise showing ingenuity bottling blended ginWING IT
AAcross 21: A few wish that will never happenSOME HOPE
AAcross 23: Some curds, or tofu in a waySORT OF
AAcross 26: Note that may be read both ways
AAcross 27: Trouble between a mother and son over spiritual leaderDALAI LAMA
AAcross 28: Crowd largely relaxed where reporters gather?PRESS GALLERY
DDown 1: From bad to worse – Bertie, perhapsWOOSTER
DDown 2: Short story about bird's claw
DDown 3: Cave coming up full of rats and the like – do not fretNEVER MIND
DDown 4: Object of worship in orchidology
DDown 5: American aboard a new train, one coming from Vienna?
DDown 6: Idle type finished around mid-afternoon
DDown 7: What cover may be doing for novelist
DDown 8: Push the boat out taking in a show
DDown 14: Despicable blokes initially tenanted bottom floor?
DDown 16: Leader's spoken about current, after current seen rising
DDown 17: Aplenty, popular digging toolsIN SPADES
DDown 18: Pick up summary of events?
DDown 20: Petty quarrel with a New York jeweller
DDown 22: Pigeon in middle of arboretum
DDown 24: Tread nervously in business
DDown 25: Beat female record