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Telegraph Cryptic Answers

Friday, 25th April 2025
There are 15 across clues and 16 down clues for the Telegraph Cryptic crossword on Friday, 25th April 2025. View the answers below..
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Number# Clue Answer
AAcross 1: Took over in the guise of editor, penning entirety
AAcross 5: Book substitute – keep cool!
AAcross 9: Clash perform with fashionable followingRUN-IN
AAcross 10: Conservative uniform required in tube home for extra securitySAFE HOUSE
AAcross 11: Female toilet meeting resistance by committee? It's a walkover!
AAcross 11: Female toilet meeting resistance by committee? It's a walkover!
AAcross 12: The red plot for overthrowing Taiwan's capital
AAcross 14: Get out sheriff's badge to arrest middle-of-night streakerSHOOTING STAR
AAcross 18: Plate's passed round this wizard's circle?POTTERS WHEEL
AAcross 21: It's ground-breaking in Italy and in France, and without Germany's backing
AAcross 22: Take some crude term in editorial out
AAcross 25: Company very loud, getting double shot of energy and cake here?COFFEE BAR
AAcross 26: No one's confronting European racket
AAcross 27: Cold cuts spiced up red hot and burnt
AAcross 28: Attack what big spenders doLASH OUT
DDown 1: 20 briefly row at sea
DDown 2: In Spanish sir, 'numero uno' will be first
DDown 3: Their focus is royal romance – his is in rebellion
DDown 4: Coach said do skipping regularly, spinning and dance
DDown 5: Football official with hubris fixed do up
DDown 6: Capital community centres in Kosovo and Lahore
DDown 7: Game in Monaco where note gets recycled?
DDown 8: They use X to try to change the government
DDown 13: Area welcomes housing guys offering contracts
DDown 15: In a storm, do bees try making home underwater?OYSTER-BED
DDown 16: 2-bit boxer's ploy
DDown 17: Represent constituents from Belfast and ForfarSTAND FOR
DDown 19: Kind of Blue – improvised at first, then doing changes
DDown 20: One's screened nowadays on telly, carrying on in rotation
DDown 23: Learning to climb holding new sign up
DDown 24: Network showing not a word in support of this writer