Telegraph Cryptic AnswersThursday, 12th June 2025 There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the Telegraph Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 12th June 2025. View the answers below.. All Telegraph Cryptic Answers All PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Why be ratty strangely about son's university?ABERYSTWYTHAAcross 10: Pester husband to approach bank miles awayHOUNDAAcross 11: Some declare bill is regressive and prejudicedILLIBERALAAcross 12: Recent moves involving retiring City international reserveRETICENCEAAcross 13: Food items one has in casino?CHIPSAAcross 14: Unfriendly nation, it's saidCHILLYAAcross 16: Type of pudding, one Liam's cookedSEMOLINAAAcross 18: Put right about holiday destination in papers, SpainREMEDIEDAAcross 20: Bill admits politician mostly is okayAGREEDAAcross 23: Dark colour of river hard to ignoreUMBERAAcross 24: Gym equipment engineer trialled, accepting money originallyTREADMILLAAcross 26: Recognise difference in skill behind revolutionary mattressTELL APARTAAcross 27: Find each job oddly lacking in this stateIDAHOAAcross 28: Fashionably faded vest – one was hedonistically exhibiting it?STONEWASHEDDDown 2: Tactless spy unmaskedBLUNTDDown 3: US city detectives right over arresting a reformerRADICALDDown 4: Disheartened missing sportSKIINGDDown 5: Glaring angrily, playwright you once ultimately marriedWILD-EYEDDDown 6: Leaves old explorer heading north outside Chad's capitalTOBACCODDown 7: Inadequate and roundabout ways to find electrical faultsSHORT CIRCUITSDDown 8: Trick using heart he refused providing diamondsARTIFICEDDown 9: When working, what butchers observe in human natureFLESH AND BLOODDDown 15: This writer's phone gets fixedIMMOBILEDDown 17: Check news story at intervals during weather forecast?RESTRAINDDown 19: Stepped up to guard chap sleepingDORMANTDDown 21: Two dig ground, attracting small birdsGODWITSDDown 22: Confer over wearing one's smartest clothes elsewhere essentiallyBESTOWDDown 25: Angry plagiarist blows topIRATE