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Tuesday, 14th October 2025

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

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Old one introduced to lovely dancing woman 12 25 Across loves	OLIVE OYL
AAcross 5:	Setter, for example, setter going round bend
AAcross 9:	Hard shell swiftly added to vehicle
AAcross 10:	Thin plate thrown back for sensual man
AAcross 12:	Character, animated in Yalta, so mad with Oppenheimer	POPEYE THE SAILOR MAN
AAcross 13:	Sound system new to Christmas-time show
AAcross 14:	Single malt distilled here, over bar	OBAN
AAcross 16:	Saint Nick embodies a source of strength for 12 25 Across
AAcross 19:	Market back near ordinary city
AAcross 21:	Cook first one ousted
AAcross 24:	Organ close to collapse in fast movement
AAcross 25:	See 12 Across	POPEYE THE SAILOR MAN
AAcross 27:	See 28 Across	EARLY DAY MOTION
AAcross 28:	Money adroitly distributed around America? It's a topic for debate	EARLY DAY MOTION
AAcross 29:	Disregarding study, condemns snow leopards
AAcross 30:	Daughter leaving waterside in distress so to speak	AS IT WERE
DDown 1:	Fill Médoc cup Yorick holds
DDown 2:	Break in transmission initially with India two runs ahead
DDown 3:	Desmopathy periodically having no effect
DDown 4:	State having Chinese ready to accommodate Burmese?
DDown 6:	One-nil reverse – hard supporter's throttled Reds fan?
DDown 7:	Large abdomen troubled swimmer	LEMON DAB
DDown 8:	An account written up about old tribesperson's burial ground
DDown 11:	Great being where crisis was once mounting
DDown 15:	Propeller porbeagle dismantled
DDown 15:	Propeller porbeagle dismantled
DDown 17:	Song starts in Oval Office, single note held	O SOLE MIO
DDown 18:	Whale diet? Stupid sort put on weight
DDown 20:	English flower in Parliament going topless?
DDown 21:	Something to protect Icarus, wayward son
DDown 22:	Mark's daughter smirking European entertains
DDown 23:	Catalyst: Zulu invading enemy ground
DDown 26:	Bird's duck far from dry crossing lake

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