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Telegraph Cryptic Answers

Wednesday, 3rd September 2025
There are 16 across clues and 16 down clues for the Telegraph Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 3rd September 2025. View the answers below..
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Number# Clue Answer
AAcross 1: Low character: English pound flaggingCOLONEL BLIMP
AAcross 9: Ring to cancel Spielberg classic
AAcross 10: Slender rod daughter left embedded in small conifer
AAcross 11: Intros from The Apprentice, Sugar's key assignment
AAcross 12: One's read caution after illegal drugE-BOOK
AAcross 13: Ms Reeves's boundless longing
AAcross 16: Buccaneer, after losing head, discharged lackey with fury
AAcross 17: Cover flipping novel predicament
AAcross 18: Camera panned around front of battlefield – gruesome
AAcross 21: Sees two West End musicals, missing endings
AAcross 23: Regretted being coarse on the radio
AAcross 24: Second professional golf kid
AAcross 25: Hollywood gong ignoring old Cliff
AAcross 28: Force to work in gentlemen's lav – eww!
AAcross 29: Fifties bohemian from best family from the east
AAcross 30: Drive adopted by former PM: railway operation on a large scaleMAJOR SURGERY
DDown 1: Is not able to get to grips with a South American card game
DDown 2: No end of cash – lie back and relax!
DDown 3: Stick up landlady on vacation, memorably
DDown 4: Roped in girl to go over dictionary
DDown 5: Billions put away by ex-Labour leader in hideaway
DDown 6: One Day International cricket initially bores mother a bit
DDown 7: Modelling PVC material, an AvengerCAPTAIN MARVEL
DDown 8: We all go out on this brass hat's three-wheelerGENERAL STRIKE
DDown 14: Cathedral city set up Socialist Times
DDown 15: Philosopher seen in Polyanthos regularly
DDown 19: Tuchel's earning cups here?CHELSEA
DDown 20: Quick! Train former journos!
DDown 21: Belt and outfit
DDown 22: Journalist having base in New York East Side borough
DDown 26: Tech saving lives of, for starters, Hamilton, Alonso, Leclerc & Ocon
DDown 27: Air force served up eastern food