Telegraph Cryptic Answers

Thursday, 5th December 2024

There are 16 across clues and 16 down clues for the Telegraph Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 5th December 2024. View the answers below..

The Answers

Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Father and Lord before a temple
AAcross 5:	Close to ease, occasionally, in stay
AAcross 10:	Astral region in endless space, initially
AAcross 11:	Females engendering pride?
AAcross 12:	Showing class, that is, wearing glasses
AAcross 13:	Makes time to acquire European firm
AAcross 14:	Pain again with ruler, virtually thrashed
AAcross 17:	Cancel Times and Express, firstly
AAcross 18:	Start to smell border plant
AAcross 19:	Huge riots turned out justified
AAcross 21:	Ruin single holding can for drink
AAcross 23:	New fans backing Queen sensation
AAcross 25:	Restore control immediately facing sweetheart
AAcross 26:	Home of a man, perhaps English
AAcross 27:	Worship till doomsday in empty rapture
AAcross 28:	Capital of Israel?
DDown 2:	Breathing verse into a tale
DDown 3:	Persistent smell rises, say, around current
DDown 4:	Ace mariner turned up maps
DDown 5:	Ricochet blast resounded containing energy
DDown 6:	One is part of cattle drive
DDown 7:	Rope's dead wrong for criminal
DDown 8:	Clergyman preacher's opening on incendiary activity
DDown 9:	Fly is oddly tested twice
DDown 15:	Flounder's identified partially seeing bottom
DDown 16:	Sprout eaten with grim cooking
DDown 17:	From continent our agenda includes train
DDown 18:	Gloomy doctor consumed by affliction
DDown 20:	Sunday's first canon producing long sermon?
DDown 22:	Offspring possibly in one's charge
DDown 23:	Spot on manuscript appears
DDown 24:	Beak accepts old form of execution