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Telegraph Cryptic Answers

Wednesday, 14th May 2025
There are 16 across clues and 16 down clues for the Telegraph Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 14th May 2025. View the answers below..
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Number# Clue Answer
AAcross 1: U-boat then plane boarded by China's principal citizen
AAcross 5: Retired double-0 spy laconically carries a tune
AAcross 9: Lad from Middle East – The Greatest Crimper, it's said?ALI BABA
AAcross 10: Teammate of Neil A and Michael C gutted red bird
AAcross 11: One stocks wicked items in the style of Bing?
AAcross 12: Promise second wife endless years
AAcross 13: Off-peak call?
AAcross 15: Branch of The Old Bill that puts the squeeze on?VICE SQUAD
AAcross 17: Mo changes, slipping into oriental dress
AAcross 19: Horrid area Stuyvesant cleared out in New York
AAcross 22: Major setback – million lost importing international wine
AAcross 23: Buffoon king undressed queen at home
AAcross 25: Vagrant late for training
AAcross 26: Kestrel filmed in Devon river, black as can be
AAcross 27: Dearly, desperately gobbling up European cake like this?
AAcross 28: Some believe X tremendous? It's immoderate
DDown 1: Prim, strait-laced celebrity sitting on church yard
DDown 2: Robber in group stealing equipment
DDown 3: "No good leaving Blighty" – horny southern African
DDown 4: London thieves that might get into pot?TEA LEAVES
DDown 5: Auntie rising to cuddle a Yankee taxi-driver
DDown 6: Indolent maid, one bearing many dishesLAZY SUSAN
DDown 7: Thin coating on gold table
DDown 8: Border and bed both pruned, tidied up
DDown 14: Ancestral ground, home to duchy
DDown 16: A mild blue Conservative, Archer is at home here
DDown 17: Max number allowed in vehicle touring Spain being cautious
DDown 18: Saving firm involved in money changing
DDown 20: Quiet, upper-class, yet quaintly English term for sleepSHUT-EYE
DDown 21: Provider of liquidity between banks in Wuhan?
DDown 23: Full of energy, tough, went like the clappers
DDown 24: Winger, for example, starts to relish extra time