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Wednesday, 13th August 2025

There are 14 across clues and 16 down clues for the Telegraph Toughie crossword on Wednesday, 13th August 2025. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	One who welcomes soldiers for lunch?
AAcross 5:	Passage in protest song animates people from southern Africa	TSONGA
AAcross 9:	Chief supports Satanism, dreadfully bored by Christianity in the end
AAcross 11:	Gather a graduate's succeeded
AAcross 12:	Defeat crushes thoroughly disheartened gymnast, retiring in poor spirits?
AAcross 13:	National chain supermarket banks on value blocking M&S
AAcross 15:	Actor and director wait on set, shaking with cold	CLINT EASTWOOD
AAcross 18:	Scientist lauded ban on disintegrating building material	WATTLE AND DAUB
AAcross 22:	Opening line in court
AAcross 23:	With no knights remaining, revolution split part of castle
AAcross 26:	Spiky disc jockey wore a tiny bit of leather
AAcross 27:	Spanish city likes importing dead fish from the East
AAcross 28:	Extremely sneaky agreement to stop cultural magazine making a comeback
AAcross 29:	Calm, taking westbound river passage
DDown 1:	International competition commonly has an adverse affect on people	ARMS RACE
DDown 2:	Surprise idiots raising son
DDown 3:	A sailor discussed storm
DDown 4:	Benefit initially unnoticeable for one in Genesis
DDown 6:	Unpleasant person smooths over old charges	SO-AND-SO
DDown 7:	Drink and take van criminally, having consumed an excess of drugs	NEAT VODKA
DDown 8:	Player loses header – it leads to a goal
DDown 10:	Special officers in the US with power to capture temple	SWAT TEAM
DDown 14:	Spooner's learning charges for military leaders
DDown 16:	How and why Taiwan's changed	IN WHAT WAY
DDown 17:	Notice, on returning, your car's clamped in the same place
DDown 19:	Confronts false stories about fashion label
DDown 20:	One using that is supporting doctor and company supplying Boots
DDown 21:	High-flyer brought down by The Sun?
DDown 24:	Again broadcast on the subject of farm animal
DDown 25:	Letters from scholar outraged about exam

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