Telegraph Cryptic Answers

Monday, 8th September 2025

There are 16 across clues and 16 down clues for the Telegraph Cryptic crossword on Monday, 8th September 2025. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Firm underwear for snakes
AAcross 4:	Sort of fuel for each cigarette?
AAcross 8:	Prince hiding in grassland
AAcross 10:	Could this help you to see better? Nonsense!
AAcross 11:	European Union name such unruly falsetto singers?
AAcross 12:	Sculptor has bar at home
AAcross 13:	Treat with contempt Russian leader and leader of Germany for not agreeing
AAcross 14:	Something gripping for the papers, a short piece on dangerous reptile	CROCODILE CLIP
AAcross 17:	Write song and tend to get confused where leader lives	DOWNING STREET
AAcross 22:	One grail manufactured before new metal object	ANGLE IRON
AAcross 23:	Slow movement in one of Florida's islands
AAcross 24:	Husband on island put on weight, somewhere in the West Country	HONITON
AAcross 25:	Old instrument found in bar after fire
AAcross 26:	Discover uniform kept by second son
AAcross 27:	Decline returning aboard velocipede? Certainly!
AAcross 28:	Mark from wet earth and grime initially, in the Home Counties?
DDown 1:	Hurrah for toast!
DDown 2:	Student in wild drinking binge gets a mixer
DDown 3:	A win once more
DDown 5:	Wildcat runs behind American news presenter
DDown 6:	Composer put up one dainty, incomplete trophy
DDown 7:	Troubled singer to pack it in
DDown 8:	Bushes transformed Hendon doors around northerly road
DDown 9:	Madness maybe a result of being knocked unconscious?
DDown 14:	Rotter has e.g. jack or ace, not queen
DDown 15:	Vain old lag taking his ease, one might say
DDown 16:	Grass, something sold in garden centre
DDown 18:	Using no pesticides, I can go mad about resistance
DDown 19:	Wrapped up shattered red bone
DDown 20:	Hide, lacking energy, in a state of agitation
DDown 21:	Courage – and where it might come from
DDown 23:	This person may stand in, when you're patient?

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