Telegraph Toughie Answers

Thursday, 16th October 2025

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

The Answers

Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	It's worth catching performance rehearsal
AAcross 5:	Concerned with nude getting cold shoulder
AAcross 9:	Aptitude including arithmetic, say, for education
AAcross 10:	One provides guard for swordsman
AAcross 12:	Some lovers hooting go too far
AAcross 13:	Catches band second to last
AAcross 14:	Hawk's head's rotating
AAcross 16:	What's inflated and sailed around lake?
AAcross 19:	Acting fit, embracing sweetheart
AAcross 21:	Reversing makes water trickle slowly
AAcross 24:	Initially superfluous, perhaps, and rather extraneous
AAcross 25:	Good chaps with sound Prime Minister
AAcross 27:	Remorse from mariner finally with bird
AAcross 28:	Learned of low-calorie fare
AAcross 29:	One giving soft touch for spiel
AAcross 30:	Trigger's principal rogues, Del and Rodney?
DDown 1:	Whiteness of china bowl almost turned
DDown 2:	Maybe actress occasionally declines
DDown 3:	Smacks and spanks gripping thong's end
DDown 4:	Wriggle out of criminal wrong
DDown 6:	Choose right lyric poem for conductor
DDown 7:	Launch astern holding fast
DDown 8:	Home provided over stay
DDown 11:	Sharp pain being shot?
DDown 15:	Soldier on exercise about taking part
DDown 17:	Take off after ace right here?
DDown 18:	Good hand is shipshape
DDown 20:	Very big match switching halves
DDown 21:	More nervous holding plug for dimmer
DDown 22:	Hunt enemy welcoming scrap
DDown 23:	Propagates vegetables round front of garden
DDown 26:	Got a whiff of fish