Telegraph Toughie AnswersTuesday, 23rd December 2025 There are 16 across clues and 18 down clues for the Telegraph Toughie crossword on Tuesday, 23rd December 2025. View the answers below.. All Telegraph Toughie Answers All PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 8: Issue close to the mother countryEMANATIONAAcross 9: In which situation sir drunkenly abandons wherries?WHEREAAcross 10: Having swallowed punch, people in general like milkWHITEAAcross 11: Where one eats top grub as orderedGASTROPUBAAcross 12: Extract from free lecture put in againRE-ELECTAAcross 14: Laid back guards reportedly get paid dailyDIURNALAAcross 16: Daughter upset husband whose 26 Across is 3DEATHAAcross 18: Parody secret language English eschewedC.O.D.AAcross 18: Parody secret language English eschewedCODAAcross 19: British want coffee perhaps served thusBLACKAAcross 21: Defence establishment managed PC language?FORTRANAAcross 22: This writer in Somerset town delightedCHARMEDAAcross 24: Plague from substance one used in ParisIMPORTUNEAAcross 26: Smack the PonyHORSEAAcross 27: Firm's great deal with rag trade workerTONEDAAcross 28: Chiefly sombre in nature possibly?SATURNINEDDown 1: Neologism going around Liberal AmericaNEW WORLDDDown 2: Nice to embrace a maiden whose 26 Across is 19FAMINEDDown 3: Upright post devoid of colourPALEDDown 4: Betray impatience? Fine, I would understandFIDGETDDown 5: Partial description of Möbius stripONE-SIDEDDDown 6: Forest denizen on doorstep's outside with adultRED PANDADDown 7: Pet rabbit periodically covered in salon productGERBILDDown 9: Sent north, Callow, whose 26 Across is 25WARDDown 13: Headless ram? Heavens!ETHERDDown 15: Uninvited guest's offence – e.g. turning up, getting kicked outUMBRADDown 17: American protein shakes: that's poisonATROPINEDDown 18: Conservative running hunt whose 26 Across is 10CONQUESTDDown 20: RFK here regularly travels over border for dishKEDGEREEDDown 21: Spirited duke imprisoning European: end of storyFEISTYDDown 22: Energy-saving old car foundCREATEDDown 23: Gloomy note written about world and its end?MORBIDDDown 25: Socialist article from German revolutionaryREDDDown 26: Centre for an audience does attract oneHART