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Friday, 5th December 2025

There are 16 across clues and 14 down clues for the Telegraph Toughie crossword on Friday, 5th December 2025. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Fling large eggs around back of stage following trade show	LOVE AFFAIR
AAcross 6:	Backing Tory moderates in problematic situation
AAcross 9:	Complaint really briefly inflamed, then connected, both sides in argument	SORE THROAT
AAcross 10:	Shelled horse, one in five?
AAcross 12:	Passionate fighting male
AAcross 13:	Hard times to come in Yard, say, after shake-up	RAINY DAYS
AAcross 15:	Went back on fellow, for the most part breaking obligation
AAcross 16:	Essentially, Marxist state welcoming international Jesuit
AAcross 18:	Half-hearted hound hides stick, ultimately where he might sleep
AAcross 20:	Drug old cattle breed lying around boards
AAcross 23:	Capital of Brunei somehow entertaining Democrat Gary Hart to begin with
AAcross 24:	American sailors picked up hero
AAcross 26:	US clumsy fool cutting head in jump on ice
AAcross 27:	Sudden attack of glitz biker disrupted
AAcross 28:	State of endless change caused by vote on viral problem
AAcross 29:	Sort of stalls additional resistance aboard ship	NEWS-STANDS
DDown 1:	Focus of developer on internet-gateway company’s programming language
DDown 2:	Very simplistic over potting right (supposedly magical) plant
DDown 3:	Air of awful egoists, maybe	AS TIME GOES BY
DDown 4:	Conifers, three, regularly chopped into sacks	FIR TREES
DDown 5:	Originally, Inland Revenue activated quick investment scheme for foreign nationals	IRAQIS
DDown 7:	Reworking of Nuts in May uncovered – it’s a disaster
DDown 8:	Turns round frame of cover herein, intermittently giving protection from “driving” rain?
DDown 11:	What could keep warm approximately half of kipper?	PYJAMA JACKET
DDown 14:	Sign on staff from sport’s inner circle ahead of brief split	TREBLE CLEF
DDown 17:	Exaggerated niggles percolate up about not this but the other	PET HATES
DDown 19:	This half of hunt actively includes unknown dog	SHIH-TZU
DDown 21:	European wingless mythical monster crushes bones
DDown 22:	Pick up some Dictionnaires Le Robert to find “threat”	OR ELSE
DDown 25:	Long time in prison without beginning to contact son

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