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Telegraph Toughie Answers

Thursday, 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..

The Answers

Number# Clue Answer
AAcross 1: Simple sound heard by rugby player
AAcross 9: Went through part of song in jazz style
AAcross 10: Call by parrot – less noisy birdPOP IN
AAcross 11: Tell composer Fellini's sorry about cutting bits
AAcross 12: On reflection always assuming priest provides comfort
AAcross 13: Holiday home let out before tea danceCHA-CHA
AAcross 14: Gradually build up – for beginners climbing Cuillin Ridge is bracing
AAcross 17: Step to keep emergency room germ-free
AAcross 19: Sounds of mice and rats
AAcross 22: Son, Charles, 6 stops avoiding work
AAcross 24: See 13 AcrossCHA-CHA
AAcross 25: Perhaps Best Actress Award – to Screen Guild – occasionally related to kissing
AAcross 26: Definitely working out with BondNO DOUBT
AAcross 28: Watching as, finally, The Big Yin enters
AAcross 29: Broad primarily attacks wicket, always keeping eye on the ballWIDE AWAKE
AAcross 30: Picture of chicken sandwichYELLOW SUBMARINE
DDown 1: Hugely value firm before August news article about debt banks ignoredSET GREAT STORE BY
DDown 2: Class of Oxford scholars announced courses
DDown 3: EMI cutting its electronic record
DDown 4: Selfie wearing stockings in nursing home
DDown 5: They might be worn out playing 2 iron at the outset
DDown 6: Theatre student interrupting benefit in disgust
DDown 7: Fancy a tipple – name one cocktailAPPLETINI
DDown 8: Awful Everton on edge defending headers from Tottenham Hotspur – that's a touchy subject!DON'T EVEN GO THERE
DDown 15: PM once in hotel guarded by dog, unfriendly
DDown 16: Articulated food truck, oddly, a three-wheelerTUK TUK
DDown 18: See 16 DownTUK
DDown 20: Old Austin's somewhat abysmal legroom
DDown 21: Ultimately fixes electric power tools, getting messy hands
DDown 22: Sailor holding up both ends of smoked fishSAND DAB
DDown 23: State, say, Ross King's content to start
DDown 27: Greek character taken aback by foreign china showing taste
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