Telegraph Toughie AnswersWednesday, 1st October 2025 There are 17 across clues and 13 down clues for the Telegraph Toughie crossword on Wednesday, 1st October 2025. View the answers below.. Also try..All Telegraph Toughie Answers All PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Energetically get one's hands on a few eggsCLUTCHAAcross 5: Python leaving papers in care of quiet, singular AthenianPERICLESAAcross 9: One uses tricks to swindle Texas oilman hoarding uranium and goldCONJURORAAcross 10: Web designer's sophisticated search programSPIDERAAcross 11: A femme fatale, mum starts to tempt admirer by tossing hairMATA HARIAAcross 12: Father, religious, excommunicating Catherine in prankFROLICAAcross 13: After the season, plan mutual open-ended returnsAUTUMNALAAcross 15: Pass round women's hoodCOWLAAcross 17: Soccer trifecta lands sure-fire winnerCERTAAcross 19: Social network adopted by former PM as chief supportMAINSTAYAAcross 20: Rolls manufacturers?BAKERSAAcross 21: American in Paris maybe a West End smashHAMILTONAAcross 22: Upper hides round hole in one part of shoeTOECAPAAcross 23: Reportedly is aware of seedy bar in which a drop is pretty steepNOSE DIVEAAcross 23: Reportedly is aware of seedy bar in which a drop is pretty steepNOSEDIVEAAcross 24: Cure against deer being pierced by tick initiallyANTIDOTEAAcross 25: Ridiculous sailors' uniform ruched at the edgesABSURDDDown 2: Prototype helicopter designer giving old doctor an Xmas spinLEONARDODDown 3: I'm obliged, Harry, to get fresh jam filling – it's a wonderTAJ MAHALDDown 4: Order a treble? Ah, that's refreshingHERBAL TEADDown 5: New hearing implant, electronic, that allowed The Doors to be laid backPARLIAMENT-HINGEDDown 6: Endanger sovereign after evacuating areaIMPERILDDown 7: Genteel boy, extremely youthful former PresidentLADYLIKEDDown 8: Stephenson's first engine fitted with power wheel with teethSPROCKETDDown 14: Smartie Pants set up AI plantARTEMISIADDown 15: US agents soundly duff up Italian favourite from 20 AcrossCIABATTADDown 16: Like the most weird, most Dastardly race?WACKIESTDDown 17: Bill goes by bike around a group of islandsCYCLADESDDown 18: Clergyman finished swallowing large pieceREVOLVERDDown 19: Fantastic female compiler, married, held in police operationMERMAID