Telegraph Toughie AnswersThursday, 2nd October 2025 There are 16 across clues and 16 down clues for the Telegraph Toughie crossword on Thursday, 2nd October 2025. View the answers below.. Also try..All Telegraph Toughie Answers All PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Simple sound heard by rugby playerSTRAIGHTFORWARDAAcross 9: Went through part of song in jazz styleTRAVERSEDAAcross 10: Call by parrot – less noisy birdPOP INAAcross 11: Tell composer Fellini's sorry about cutting bitsROSSINIAAcross 12: On reflection always assuming priest provides comfortRELIEVEAAcross 13: Holiday home let out before tea danceCHA-CHAAAcross 14: Gradually build up – for beginners climbing Cuillin Ridge is bracingACCRETEAAcross 17: Step to keep emergency room germ-freeSTERILEAAcross 19: Sounds of mice and ratsSQUEAKSAAcross 22: Son, Charles, 6 stops avoiding workSKIVINGAAcross 24: See 13 AcrossCHA-CHAAAcross 25: Perhaps Best Actress Award – to Screen Guild – occasionally related to kissingOSCULARAAcross 26: Definitely working out with BondNO DOUBTAAcross 28: Watching as, finally, The Big Yin entersEYINGAAcross 29: Broad primarily attacks wicket, always keeping eye on the ballWIDE AWAKEAAcross 30: Picture of chicken sandwichYELLOW SUBMARINEDDown 1: Hugely value firm before August news article about debt banks ignoredSET GREAT STORE BYDDown 2: Class of Oxford scholars announced coursesROADSDDown 3: EMI cutting its electronic recordITEMISEDDown 4: Selfie wearing stockings in nursing homeHOSPICEDDown 5: They might be worn out playing 2 iron at the outsetFEDORASDDown 6: Theatre student interrupting benefit in disgustREPULSEDDown 7: Fancy a tipple – name one cocktailAPPLETINIDDown 8: Awful Everton on edge defending headers from Tottenham Hotspur – that's a touchy subject!DON'T EVEN GO THEREDDown 15: PM once in hotel guarded by dog, unfriendlyCHURCHILLDDown 16: Articulated food truck, oddly, a three-wheelerTUK TUKDDown 18: See 16 DownTUKDDown 20: Old Austin's somewhat abysmal legroomALLEGRODDown 21: Ultimately fixes electric power tools, getting messy handsSCRAWLSDDown 22: Sailor holding up both ends of smoked fishSAND DABDDown 23: State, say, Ross King's content to startINDIANADDown 27: Greek character taken aback by foreign china showing tasteUMAMI