Telegraph Cryptic AnswersMonday, 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.. All Telegraph Cryptic Answers All PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Means to get around town – using quiet donkeyBYPASSAAcross 4: Covered pupils before illness gone?OBSCUREDAAcross 10: Positive about golf upswingSURGEAAcross 11: Registration of ten men or, confusingly, about fifty?ENROLMENTAAcross 12: Poet penning ordinary lines in postBOLLARDAAcross 13: Delicate bridge player's bidsTENDERSAAcross 14: Where you can get your own back, having come a long way?BAGGAGE RECLAIMAAcross 17: Agitated leaders sent me, with head of tribunal, to find experienced politiciansELDER STATESMENAAcross 21: One with no chance or phone brokenNO-HOPERAAcross 23: Dog gets the German soupCHOWDERAAcross 24: Stick with this and you might have difficulty letting go!SUPERGLUEAAcross 25: State, on the radio: "I owned a garden tool"IDAHOAAcross 26: Director makes his mark with first of Emmys, embraces sonSCORSESEAAcross 27: Starts parts of a tennis match, after runningONSETSDDown 1: Nocturnal creature: George Dubya when very young?BUSH BABYDDown 1: Nocturnal creature: George Dubya when very young?BUSHBABYDDown 2: Artist detained by dim female lawyer's assistantPARALEGALDDown 3: Composer getting me into Satan – awful!SMETANADDown 5: A way to make peace? It's no good if you've an axe to grind!BURY THE HATCHETDDown 6: Military type sounds like a nut!COLONELDDown 7: Bird concerning First LadyREEVEDDown 8: Dislike of French experimentDETESTDDown 9: Different classes read old manuscriptsDEAD SEA SCROLLSDDown 15: Happening right now, I'm given work on a disputeIMMEDIATEDDown 16: Huge American going after English standard doughnutENORMOUSDDown 18: Sells abroad from former docklandsEXPORTSDDown 19: Sensation resulting from ecstasy and movementEMOTIONDDown 20: Flowers returned in vases, in autumnANISESDDown 22: Large animal cool by river abroadHIPPO