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Telegraph Cryptic Answers

Friday, 11th April 2025
There are 14 across clues and 16 down clues for the Telegraph Cryptic crossword on Friday, 11th April 2025. View the answers below..

The Answers

Number# Clue Answer
AAcross 1: Is scared to play titular Shakespearean characterCRESSIDA
AAcross 5: Sorry continent gets 50 per cent reduced funding
AAcross 10: Despotic ruler is evil, their banter staggeringIVAN THE TERRIBLE
AAcross 11: Work for almost zero payment ultimately
AAcross 12: Sheep, perhaps those looking to cross river
AAcross 13: Gross type of celebrity, one believing destiny's inevitable
AAcross 15: Great PM at one time
AAcross 18: Notice record temperature, becoming expert
AAcross 20: Band on the radio yearn to introduce swingLONG WAVE
AAcross 23: Mad panic gripping old reservists and army officer
AAcross 25: Swimmer from country husband visits each year
AAcross 26: Shy person using psychiatrist, not half making bloomerSHRINKING VIOLET
AAcross 27: Author for instance with hesistant remarks
AAcross 28: Anti-corrosive coating left off submarine
DDown 1: Texture, say, of cooked duck and game King overlooks
DDown 2: Fancy beer revolutionary British soldiers gulped down
DDown 3: Mandarin in a loose jacket, easily removed?
DDown 4: Remained with German newspaper that is to disappear
DDown 6: Company receiving attention? Maybe it's automatic
DDown 7: Walk better without frame
DDown 8: Doctors keeping smaller, but not large, kitchen furniture
DDown 9: Number will stop female getting raise
DDown 14: State of flooring inside villa is so regularly ignored
DDown 16: Young animals Julie, not quite seven, trained
DDown 17: Skinful essentially before Oscars I suspect causes drowsiness
DDown 19: Shoe one racehorse needs?
DDown 21: Military wife right to wear uniform
DDown 22: Repeated phrase informant rashly employs
DDown 24: Why it's said informal speaker returns for celebration
DDown 25: Irreligious old man Harry upset