Telegraph Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 23rd March 2023

There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the Telegraph Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 23rd March 2023. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Bear in pre-hibernation initially putting on weight	PADDINGTON
AAcross 6:	Reduce high speed
AAcross 10:	Visitor is supposed to be announced
AAcross 11:	Newspaper fine with subordinate making enormous bloomer
AAcross 12:	Wants daughter to meet English gentlemen possessing energy!
AAcross 13:	Grasps biscuits I've put out
AAcross 14:	Stubborn Republican about to block review of Tennessee report
AAcross 18:	Expert against healthy characters eating European pastries
AAcross 21:	Unscrupulous male this writer's spoken about
AAcross 23:	Terrible actor content to leave India for another country
AAcross 24:	Duck out of Bond film	GOLDEN-EYE
AAcross 25:	Primate dismissing bishop perhaps as bore
AAcross 26:	Spoke of career before golf
AAcross 27:	Dry hay tedder spreads across field at last
DDown 1:	A little chihuahua dog appears around temple
DDown 2:	Formal letter, nineteenth one penned by physician today ultimately
DDown 3:	Idea minister rued occasionally to reform brokers
DDown 4:	Fuel leakage when key parts crack	GAS ESCAPE
DDown 5:	Admitted having had debts, concealing indefinite number
DDown 7:	Detective, hard on upset mum in London borough	LEWISHAM
DDown 8:	To some extent rising cadet is a rapacious sponger
DDown 9:	Musical instrument underneath stairs in black box	FLIGHT RECORDER
DDown 15:	Note Yorkshire's opener becoming short-tempered
DDown 16:	Type of spaniel in season, mother-to-be essentially
DDown 17:	Queue endlessly to get disinfectant
DDown 19:	Harsh neighbourhood police officer must flee
DDown 20:	Forked out around two pounds for pasty
DDown 22:	Subject, say, covered by story