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Friday, 5th December 2025

There are 14 across clues and 16 down clues for the Telegraph Cryptic crossword on Friday, 5th December 2025. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Traveller, regularly on vacation, touring country
AAcross 4:	Figure they use regularly to feed anger
AAcross 9:	Before start of play, tense captain's opening ploy
AAcross 10:	One failing to remember a cinema's being renovated
AAcross 11:	Etiquette for old army officer over time
AAcross 13:	Interest son in horse race
AAcross 15:	Cosmetic appearing in fewer and fewer shops?	VANISHING CREAM
AAcross 18:	Fiddle Peter is running that's lacking in initiative
AAcross 22:	Schoolboys terrified to swallow shellfish
AAcross 24:	Back island runner to lose lead for sure
AAcross 26:	I have to stop drunken revel	LIVE IT UP
AAcross 27:	Useless female subsequently useful?
AAcross 28:	Lengthy quarrel at event sadly involving daughter
AAcross 29:	Old measure of class
DDown 1:	Insert text again, in entirety perhaps	RE-TYPE
DDown 2:	Modern household item, clanger primarily in war movie that's shot
DDown 3:	Capital from Italy mostly weary Scotsman raised
DDown 5:	Carol maybe that man picked up
DDown 6:	Doubting Thomas is infected, visited by Charlie
DDown 7:	Ready to replace Conservative with right peculiarity
DDown 8:	Apology for a dance?	EXCUSE-ME
DDown 12:	Old ladies wanting month's rest
DDown 14:	Course with tenth green repeatedly out of bounds
DDown 16:	Creating a peer of knight nine blog furiously about
DDown 17:	Further man upset over verse in Slovenian formerly?
DDown 19:	Keith awkwardly eats skinned eels and similar things	THE LIKE
DDown 20:	Broadcast witnesses your arrest
DDown 21:	Very bad cut on end of toe
DDown 23:	Number of Poles surrounding First Lady
DDown 25:	Barely deserved

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