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Telegraph Toughie Answers

Tuesday, 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..

The Answers

Number# Clue Answer
AAcross 8: Issue close to the mother country
AAcross 9: In which situation sir drunkenly abandons wherries?
AAcross 10: Having swallowed punch, people in general like milk
AAcross 11: Where one eats top grub as orderedGASTROPUB
AAcross 12: Extract from free lecture put in againRE-ELECT
AAcross 14: Laid back guards reportedly get paid daily
AAcross 16: Daughter upset husband whose 26 Across is 3
AAcross 18: Parody secret language English eschewed
AAcross 18: Parody secret language English eschewed
AAcross 19: British want coffee perhaps served thus
AAcross 21: Defence establishment managed PC language?
AAcross 22: This writer in Somerset town delighted
AAcross 24: Plague from substance one used in Paris
AAcross 26: Smack the Pony
AAcross 27: Firm's great deal with rag trade worker
AAcross 28: Chiefly sombre in nature possibly?
DDown 1: Neologism going around Liberal AmericaNEW WORLD
DDown 2: Nice to embrace a maiden whose 26 Across is 19
DDown 3: Upright post devoid of colour
DDown 4: Betray impatience? Fine, I would understand
DDown 5: Partial description of Möbius stripONE-SIDED
DDown 6: Forest denizen on doorstep's outside with adultRED PANDA
DDown 7: Pet rabbit periodically covered in salon product
DDown 9: Sent north, Callow, whose 26 Across is 25
DDown 13: Headless ram? Heavens!
DDown 15: Uninvited guest's offence – e.g. turning up, getting kicked out
DDown 17: American protein shakes: that's poison
DDown 18: Conservative running hunt whose 26 Across is 10
DDown 20: RFK here regularly travels over border for dish
DDown 21: Spirited duke imprisoning European: end of story
DDown 22: Energy-saving old car found
DDown 23: Gloomy note written about world and its end?
DDown 25: Socialist article from German revolutionary
DDown 26: Centre for an audience does attract one