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Telegraph Cryptic Answers

Friday, 15th August 2025
There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the Telegraph Cryptic crossword on Friday, 15th August 2025. View the answers below..

The Answers

Number# Clue Answer
AAcross 1: Circumstances support golf, 18 holes to follow
AAcross 6: Perhaps Zatopek first of athletes to leave messageEMIL
AAcross 10: Excitement of American after little drink
AAcross 11: Tucking into fish, sister with drink problem
AAcross 12: Having married in Exeter, relocating is harsh
AAcross 13: Plane's greatest height?
AAcross 14: Opportunities after shock separation for final remarksPARTING SHOTS
AAcross 18: Drivers over 70 would certainly want to avoid these?SPEED CAMERAS
AAcross 21: Tea found in elderly tramp's last informal addressOLD CHAP
AAcross 23: Set off home, expected around start of Christmas Day
AAcross 24: Overly sensitive person these days will divide small chocolate bar
AAcross 25: Put up with uni heartlessly stopping popular sandwich
AAcross 26: Noble king plugs couple performing shortly
AAcross 27: Contemporary student inspired by compiler's means of communication
DDown 1: Finances move over time
DDown 2: Pure speed, under 100
DDown 3: Labour overnight move to pursue serious measureGRAVEYARD SHIFT
DDown 4: Minor chest rasping constraining those in pit
DDown 5: Number ten set up score for nine
DDown 7: Relaxed, no harm drinking Tango after a long event
DDown 8: Pole developing laptops secures million
DDown 9: Stomach expert previously less than clear
DDown 15: English scoff, entertained by head's lack of self-assurance
DDown 16: Recommended partner wears beads occasionally
DDown 17: Stalemate as barber ultimately abandons section of Rasta's hair?
DDown 19: Book clubs cutting trips abroad
DDown 20: Rejected current cover of Observer – one could change it
DDown 22: Exercise guru's calm