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Friday, 22nd August 2025

There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the Telegraph Toughie crossword on Friday, 22nd August 2025. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 8:	This is nothing odd in fraudster
AAcross 9:	I like males this way with cycling spirit
AAcross 10:	“Sausage?”: here!; “Spring?”: present!; “Swiss?” ...	ROLL-CALL
AAcross 11:	British occupying correspondingly backward area where Ottomans ruled
AAcross 12:	Small bank initially splits funds, setting aside 2K	ITTY-BITTY
AAcross 13:	Half-hearted person taking meal of exceptional quality
AAcross 15:	Naked reviewer consumed, it's implied, rare form of H
AAcross 17:	Athlete heard catalogue of shrink’s patients?
AAcross 20:	Musical arrangement close to his heart
AAcross 22:	Keep cutting oxygenated gas current, more conclusively	A FORTIORI
AAcross 25:	Bit of advice one ignored near the end, something stiffening joints	T-PLATE
AAcross 26:	Restrict graffito to military building
AAcross 27:	Tactless perhaps of couple at dances	OUT OF PLACE
AAcross 28:	Disagreeing with politician ticking boxes
DDown 1:	Train routes run across sea out of south-east – this?	EUROSTAR
DDown 2:	Open Jug lifted in Faldo’s penultimate year
DDown 3:	Troublesome partner once buried by tax chits?
DDown 4:	Ear-bone being analysed, pathologist’s left gaps
DDown 5:	Film artistic pair receiving degree from medical school
DDown 6:	Superman’s trademark luck is out with Red “S” spurned by editor	KISS-CURL
DDown 7:	Serpent and Fury rise up toweringly
DDown 14:	Ornamental shrub reported by London park warden
DDown 16:	Salt barely covered herb
DDown 18:	They covered mail working together, a cos and Truss (only one succeeded)
DDown 19:	Avoiding the rush-hour, like yodellers yodelling?	OFF-PEAK
DDown 21:	Loud kid’s toy may set about dog with waggly tail	CAP GUN
DDown 23:	Nursemaid engrossed in moderately religious book
DDown 24:	Delightful Greek valley is leaving couple a walk in the park	TEMPE

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