Telegraph Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 6th April 2023 There are 16 across clues and 14 down clues for the Telegraph Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 6th April 2023. View the answers below.. Also try..All Telegraph Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Self-righteous musician soon struggles keeping timeSANCTIMONIOUSAAcross 9: Name on envelope is American banker, receiving treatADDRESSEEAAcross 10: Retiring, some colleague I'd admired for so longADIEUAAcross 11: Beg guide to follow map at lastPLEADAAcross 12: Barely moves sideways, being lazyIDLEAAcross 13: Avoid lowest cricket scoreDUCKAAcross 15: Wandering up to bet on defeatOUTPLAYAAcross 17: Gadgets son owned, periodically no good in retrospectDOODAHSAAcross 18: Finds flat belonging to Princess of Wales, reportedlyLOCATESAAcross 20: Fixed head of tool piercing smoothed wooden surfacePLANTEDAAcross 21: Skipping small cake for ice creamCONEAAcross 22: Car of Italian, on vacation, entering motorwayMINIAAcross 23: Back Labour against a Conservative plotCABALAAcross 26: Take place of old scoundrel nursing coldOCCURAAcross 27: Revealing drama ultimately BBC boss acquires with German moneyADMITTINGAAcross 28: Swimmer in biker gear?LEATHERJACKETDDown 1: Hobbyist, one with a very full passport?STAMP COLLECTORDDown 2: Wearing nothing, good to go in for jabNUDGEDDown 3: Surveying instrument, article newly tooled bearing inventor's originTHEODOLITEDDown 4: Bewilder dim Greek character, we hearMYSTIFYDDown 5: Something a tailor might have done caused irritationNEEDLEDDDown 6: Eggs left in cricket groundOVALDDown 7: Caffeine, maybe it's lifting briefly Scottish island workerSTIMULANTDDown 8: Sweet girl this duke upset has photo taken regularlyTURKISH DELIGHTDDown 14: Star tours racecourse, one somewhere in CanadaNOVA SCOTIADDown 16: Type of college in Switzerland a client freely describesTECHNICALDDown 19: Leaves mum drinking half of pina coladaSPINACHDDown 20: Comparatively prudish male enthralled by bookPRIMMERDDown 24: Flash British ice-skating arena changing handsBLINKDDown 25: Song, cover released by artist CareyARIA