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Telegraph Cryptic Answers

Friday, 16th May 2025
There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the Telegraph Cryptic crossword on Friday, 16th May 2025. View the answers below..
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Number# Clue Answer
AAcross 1: Revival meeting travelling between estuaries?MOUTH-TO-MOUTH
AAcross 8: Massage in a lazy way, without bending
AAcross 9: One scoffs putrid wraps cold
AAcross 11: New Year rise for school staffer?
AAcross 12: Newcomer with orchestra I needed to show part
AAcross 13: Vegetable was scorching in one's mouth
AAcross 14: Stand-in certain to receive title or backing
AAcross 16: Smelling oil, one's exited workshop
AAcross 19: Degree thus should be simple
AAcross 21: During court guards fire, turning rough
AAcross 23: Good drag is taken first – mellow stuff for a trip
AAcross 24: Rumours about son doing head over heels in assembly
AAcross 25: Sort of a trite question: what comes before foxtrot? Echo
AAcross 26: Bending rules using hidden microphone, electronic broadcast smears EUTAPE MEASURES
DDown 1: Fellow with wrapping of mummy, a shade
DDown 2: Revised over two days, maybe had lunch brought in
DDown 3: What animals eat mashed – little piggy said it's magic!HEY PRESTO
DDown 4: Attack crowd supporting cricket side
DDown 5: In season, age rosemary, turning up flavoursome plant
DDown 6: Ship not using carbon, a Queen
DDown 7: Flights made by jet car excited right-thinking politicians
DDown 10: Awfully smart clubs with bar that shifts doublesCLEVER-CLEVER
DDown 15: Pay for writer's clothing with a CR crest?
DDown 17: Liberated continent lacking initial growth
DDown 18: Killer word linked with 1 Down I'd solve at the end
DDown 19: Insect on large animal causes irritation
DDown 20: Two kinds of deep dishSEA BASS
DDown 22: Charged past?