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    Telegraph Toughie Answers - Friday, 21st July 2023

    There are 16 across clues and 16 down clues for the Telegraph Toughie crossword on Friday, 21st July 2023. View the answers below..
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    Number# Clue Answer
    AAcross 1: Plant destruction by insect
    AAcross 5: PM I see suppressing nonsenseASQUITH
    AAcross 9: Gang in bars – might they check consumption of coke?
    AAcross 10: Article, verb and pronoun finish off grammatical block
    AAcross 11: Shell ban by Israel, seething
    AAcross 12: Building up NHS? Yes, it's struggling
    AAcross 13: Current in fuse applied to keep goingSOLDIER ON
    AAcross 16: Bag English beef
    AAcross 17: Vote in a fellow King, maybe
    AAcross 18: Thrash about, needing energy foodCREAM CAKE
    AAcross 20: Lively jester, OAP, deteriorates
    AAcross 23: Delivered whisky for European admin centreHAGUE
    AAcross 25: Snitch about international racket
    AAcross 26: Buffoon runs into robust issue, one of many?
    AAcross 27: Necessary list includes a thousand on board
    AAcross 28: Wild about United dropping one in league
    DDown 1: Permit loan to be set up? I don't knowBUS PASS
    DDown 2: Actress mainly crows over Oscar
    DDown 3: Totalitarian state briefly incorrect about charging a new criminal
    DDown 4: Drives away mules, perhaps in pick-up
    DDown 5: Unexpectedly scans one with a sound resemblance?
    DDown 6: Subdue, in the capacity of mum
    DDown 7: I relish digesting volume one on your American and Russian news
    DDown 8: Papacy's unknown saint beginning to engage in breachHOLY SEE
    DDown 14: Drink in casual milieu with Jack inside churchLIME JUICE
    DDown 15: Strikes again disrupted teachers around 3rd of December
    DDown 16: Perhaps fixes Head of Intelligence in thought, affording protection in trap
    DDown 17: In draughts, maybe peg's secured bloomers?
    DDown 19: Everlasting bearing evenly coated in lead-free alloy
    DDown 21: Official concerned with overseeing First Lady
    DDown 22: Literally excites a character in part
    DDown 24: One who sticks with meagre food having swapped sides
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