Telegraph Toughie AnswersFriday, 1st August 2025 There are 16 across clues and 13 down clues for the Telegraph Toughie crossword on Friday, 1st August 2025. View the answers below.. All Telegraph Toughie Answers All PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Does this decrease annoyance with husband?HANGERAAcross 5: Runner, cold on track, training high-flyersFALCONRYAAcross 9: Bohemian afraid to cross Welshman with extremists in PwllheliFREE SPIRITAAcross 10: Approaching doctors or nursesOR SOAAcross 11: Heart-throb circling a bar is hot stuffHABANEROAAcross 12: Peddler regularly smuggled in whisky, an inferior versionRED-EYEAAcross 13: Bill smashing fruitACAIAAcross 15: Wrench fixed delivered vehicleRICKSHAWAAcross 18: Bowler here nursing new knee dismissing core toolALLEN KEYAAcross 19: Scotsman article? Savage perhaps renouncing another newspaperALLYAAcross 21: Common pigeon at back fence might observe this?OMERTAAAcross 23: Plonk second truck in RSPB reserveSAUTERNEAAcross 25: Noted sibling initially brawled, thumping when upsetGIBBAAcross 26: Playing cards well in vaultHANDSPRINGAAcross 27: City's fine castleSTOKESAYAAcross 28: Crop circle, with knot, in closed environment?TOMATODDown 2: Time to stop strain in cavitiesATRIADDown 3: Islander boosted a work unit lunch?GRENADINEDDown 4: Jimmy consumed by game's ready for an IndianRUPEESDDown 5: Film pro broadcast English river surveys aloneFOR YOUR EYES ONLYDDown 6: Erudite character having fewer calories (spicy)LITERACYDDown 7: Assembly led by school's fourth or fifth formerOF OLDDDown 8: Drink with copper overseeing arrestRUSTY NAILDDown 14: Gill, maybe, Irishman served originally in mugCOLUMNISTDDown 16: One's beaten teammates meeting a Grand National winnerSNARE DRUMDDown 17: Car still occupying periphery of spacious islandSKIATHOSDDown 20: Secure covering foremost to underpin smalls?GUSSETDDown 22: Current king overwhelmed by Polish inventorRUBIKDDown 24: Musical piece that skilled aerialist stipulates?NONET