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Tuesday, 16th September 2025

There are 14 across clues and 17 down clues for the Telegraph Toughie crossword on Tuesday, 16th September 2025. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Misemployed under-secretary sleeping around
AAcross 5:	Warrior serves winner capturing raised ground
AAcross 10:	Trouble experienced over lovely thing in bed
AAcross 11:	Political initiative takes boundary through Scottish river
AAcross 12:	Potentially harmful brand suspended?	SWORD OF DAMOCLES
AAcross 16:	Poorly defined matter Dyer may cover at Temple?	GREY AREA
AAcross 18:	Person telling tales about north-east in row
AAcross 20:	Infection, one that gets into love birds
AAcross 21:	Orchestra to transgress: more contrived for listener?
AAcross 22:	Freed from undue ritual: that's John Harmon!	OUR MUTUAL FRIEND
AAcross 27:	First victim in religion not male: Keats wrote of her
AAcross 28:	Fearless Stubbs possibly knocked back water
AAcross 29:	Write on these new books recalling stone tablet
AAcross 30:	Duke ingesting ecstasy before a celebration
DDown 2:	Renegade wife tucked into ruptured sausage
DDown 3:	Swede in salty sauce – check order with local star	SOLAR SYSTEM
DDown 4:	Physician firm restraining a harsh lawmaker
DDown 6:	Claw embedded in Archelaus
DDown 7:	Idealised figure Mike stopping murderous ensign
DDown 8:	Laugh out loud incarcerating chap regularly confined
DDown 9:	Poet to compose in ship on turning turtle
DDown 13:	Six feet under, tailless marine mammal in lowest lake	DEAD SEA
DDown 14:	City on the rise in national importance
DDown 15:	For Unite, nothing new in Tesco squabbling with Aldi
DDown 17:	One interrupting break to take over?
DDown 19:	Straightening leg Tin Man bent
DDown 20:	Graduate's old Scotsman keeping Roman goddess up
DDown 23:	Robuchon's principal oven pan
DDown 24:	Mitford-approved meat from eye parts?
DDown 25:	Learner in military group not exactly bright
DDown 26:	Screw up and down?

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