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Telegraph Cryptic Answers

Monday, 21st July 2025
There are 14 across clues and 15 down clues for the Telegraph Cryptic crossword on Monday, 21st July 2025. View the answers below..

The Answers

Number# Clue Answer
AAcross 1: Means to get around town – using quiet donkey
AAcross 4: Covered pupils before illness gone?
AAcross 10: Positive about golf upswing
AAcross 11: Registration of ten men or, confusingly, about fifty?
AAcross 12: Poet penning ordinary lines in post
AAcross 13: Delicate bridge player's bids
AAcross 14: Where you can get your own back, having come a long way?BAGGAGE RECLAIM
AAcross 17: Agitated leaders sent me, with head of tribunal, to find experienced politiciansELDER STATESMEN
AAcross 21: One with no chance or phone brokenNO-HOPER
AAcross 23: Dog gets the German soup
AAcross 24: Stick with this and you might have difficulty letting go!
AAcross 25: State, on the radio: "I owned a garden tool"
AAcross 26: Director makes his mark with first of Emmys, embraces son
AAcross 27: Starts parts of a tennis match, after running
DDown 1: Nocturnal creature: George Dubya when very young?
DDown 1: Nocturnal creature: George Dubya when very young?
DDown 2: Artist detained by dim female lawyer's assistant
DDown 3: Composer getting me into Satan – awful!
DDown 5: A way to make peace? It's no good if you've an axe to grind!BURY THE HATCHET
DDown 6: Military type sounds like a nut!
DDown 7: Bird concerning First Lady
DDown 8: Dislike of French experiment
DDown 9: Different classes read old manuscriptsDEAD SEA SCROLLS
DDown 15: Happening right now, I'm given work on a dispute
DDown 16: Huge American going after English standard doughnut
DDown 18: Sells abroad from former docklands
DDown 19: Sensation resulting from ecstasy and movement
DDown 20: Flowers returned in vases, in autumn
DDown 22: Large animal cool by river abroad