Telegraph Cryptic AnswersThursday, 10th April 2025 There are 16 across clues and 16 down clues for the Telegraph Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 10th April 2025. View the answers below.. All Telegraph Cryptic Answers All PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Discharge iron-clad soldiersFREEAAcross 4: Ban plain writing containing copyPROSCRIBEAAcross 10: Fasten wrapping around female's flipping bust!APPREHENDAAcross 11: Water finally put on cheese plantBRIERAAcross 12: Nark's first troubled being arrestedNAILEDAAcross 13: Enlarge home, sweetheart bagging apartmentINFLATEAAcross 16: Spoils wife trapped by sinkSWAGAAcross 17: Useless bid to forge spanner?FOOTBRIDGEAAcross 20: Grasped some flounders too delicatelyUNDERSTOODAAcross 21: Start to unusually park reversing pick-upsUTESAAcross 23: Signal in street taking a rightSALIENTAAcross 25: Person eliciting great interest?USURERAAcross 28: I could be on the radio!INDIAAAcross 29: Retreat over current backing for leaderEDITORIALAAcross 30: Lay bare in sun's heat, healthilyUNSHEATHEAAcross 31: First Lady with Republican, constantly?EVERDDown 2: Blame prudish adult in splitREPRIMANDDDown 3: Regular supporting the Spanish teamELEVENDDown 4: Look up and downPEEPDDown 5: Investment racket featured in speechORDINATIONDDown 6: People seen working, at lastCOBBLERSDDown 7: Imbecilic dolt is often thick, initiallyIDIOTDDown 8: Hearing things?EARSDDown 9: Shiny metal minus a gem, sadlyMAGNESIUMDDown 14: Body beginning to glaciate in Antarctica?CONTINGENTDDown 15: The French certainly keeping single carefreeLEISURELYDDown 18: Frighten quarry, perhaps getting ferret outDETERMINEDDown 19: Annoy one turning rattierIRRITATEDDown 22: Having debarked tree over mineral depositASHOREDDown 24: Mountain range also easy, occasionallyANDESDDown 26: Place of smallest room reportedlyLIEUDDown 27: Queen once provided rising excitementFIRE