Telegraph Cryptic Answers

Tuesday, 9th December 2025

There are 16 across clues and 16 down clues for the Telegraph Cryptic crossword on Tuesday, 9th December 2025. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Huge bird with flap taking off quietly
AAcross 5:	Cut diamonds found after sea captain docked
AAcross 9:	More distinguished relative ruddy knocked back
AAcross 10:	Accept a little pressure before show
AAcross 11:	Improving product, essentially, after working with the chaps	ON THE MEND
AAcross 12:	Checks rules having lost first of games
AAcross 13:	Greek character in debt, he taunts
AAcross 15:	Youngsters sneer and get a rollicking
AAcross 17:	Again reported what better patient had done
AAcross 19:	Records parrots following end of flight
AAcross 22:	PR bias engulfing a European country
AAcross 23:	What movie boss gives way?
AAcross 25:	Ace chapter and noble story
AAcross 26:	Aida perhaps half late for work
AAcross 27:	Resists converting nuns
AAcross 28:	Dazed zebras not oddly making tracks
DDown 1:	Upset tummy? Enjoy leaving small vessel
DDown 2:	Pay tribute to diet cutting both ends off type of sandwich
DDown 3:	Jog in the altogether enthralling grounds, initially
DDown 4:	Bellyache? Go in chippy
DDown 5:	Laurel perhaps next to daughter's plant
DDown 6:	This writer's left social worker's grave
DDown 7:	Fork out for five fish
DDown 8:	Doctor, regularly tense, seeks bandages
DDown 14:	Exploit a rude criminal securing release
DDown 16:	Colour that is rejected on blue quilt
DDown 17:	Imps run and disrupt a class
DDown 18:	Risks moving chicanes? Not I!
DDown 20:	Talk idly about one very common soldier
DDown 21:	Offenders getting intimate in ship
DDown 23:	Courts shortened trial, supporting District Attorney
DDown 24:	Finest rock group of the 1960s

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