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Telegraph Cryptic Answers

Monday, 5th May 2025
There are 14 across clues and 15 down clues for the Telegraph Cryptic crossword on Monday, 5th May 2025. View the answers below..
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Number# Clue Answer
AAcross 1: Stage qualification
AAcross 4: Cryptically, what indicates pots could be a barrier?
AAcross 9: Fruity dessert journalist took in
AAcross 10: Fellow I help to get better cosmetic treatment
AAcross 11: Yank with ordinary coffeeAMERICANO
AAcross 13: "I will" said in part of church
AAcross 14: Muppet coins? Or, surprisingly, a genuine pay-outINCOME SUPPORT
AAcross 17: Unfortunately, pen pals parted? They're often together in the dining roomSALT AND PEPPER
AAcross 21: Tree produced deal and resin, intially
AAcross 23: Dinosaurs, perhaps, in ancient mist? Yes, in a wayOLD FOGEYS
AAcross 24: Italian in past times exhibiting close male friendship
AAcross 25: Opposing positions taken with foul insect
AAcross 26: Having no enthusiasm, needing to remember what shopping to get?
AAcross 27: Catastrophe of monarch who was executed by sibling
DDown 1: Fed up? Beam getting pay
DDown 2: Farm worker playing Grieg soloGOOSE-GIRL
DDown 3: Sad, as developing Ice Age consumes loch
DDown 5: Having nothing to do – certainly not tied up!AT A LOOSE END
DDown 6: Fish or CIA pork supplyKOI CARP
DDown 7: Former PM in bind
DDown 8: Excuses vacuous politicians keeping on message
DDown 12: The military, having weapons, uses coercionARMED FORCES
DDown 15: Unhappy lovers use us
DDown 16: Lab isn't rebuilt around university in city
DDown 18: Maria upset with one line in overseas correspondence
DDown 18: Maria upset with one line in overseas correspondence
DDown 19: Frontiersman with messy eating habits, might you say?
DDown 20: Afterthought, getting charitable donations for religious works
DDown 22: Some ships in shipyard? How spiffing!