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Telegraph Toughie Answers

Wednesday, 27th August 2025
There are 16 across clues and 16 down clues for the Telegraph Toughie crossword on Wednesday, 27th August 2025. View the answers below..

The Answers

Number# Clue Answer
AAcross 1: Nurse once rejected account, avoiding a lie
AAcross 4: One's backing "boring Arsenal" making pledge
AAcross 9: How to get a ref to provide travel expense?TRAIN FARE
AAcross 10: Covering panic in government circles
AAcross 11: Intended column coming to a point to appear in current Times
AAcross 12: Channel swimmer, according to Spooner, gets breakfast food
AAcross 13: Curt president became the one oddly neglected by history
AAcross 16: Signs books, not the first name in there
AAcross 17: Vet's motor, early car model
AAcross 18: Whiff of toes after running
AAcross 21: Guy you texted lapping up each word of congratulations
AAcross 22: Hard men keen, it's said, to display testosterone?
AAcross 25: Photograph of old detective probing host
AAcross 26: Pencilled in number five, not using force to save bit of ink
AAcross 27: Rookie compiler's admitting decisive argument
AAcross 28: Rest and recuperation primarily taken by those abroad
DDown 1: Nowhere near a pint?NOT HALF
DDown 2: Snow under motorway traffic's restricting
DDown 3: Solitary figure, batter's last seen chasing just over 50?
DDown 4: Let up and stopped getting personalDIE DOWN
DDown 5: Alludes to potential clue for "In post"POINTS OUT
DDown 6: Craven Cottage's base overwhelmed by bias to a smaller degree
DDown 7: Switches eyewear after time, no good in the van
DDown 8: Actress in Queen Vic, Mrs Cotton?BARDOT
DDown 14: Racecourse kiss and cuddle leads to ruddy strip!RED CARPET
DDown 15: Cream hat online? ExactlyON THE NAIL
DDown 17: Advanced cronyism at the top – Conservative resorts to charges
DDown 18: Races through channel north of river in punt
DDown 19: I'm sorry to break part of ladder put up again
DDown 20: Spain allows you historically to fill small holes
DDown 23: Have a go at climbing hill while getting drunk
DDown 24: As it happens nothing tops fruit