Telegraph Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 4th May 2023

There are 16 across clues and 16 down clues for the Telegraph Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 4th May 2023. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Plain and honest speaker, unlike Beckham famously?	STRAIGHT SHOOTER
AAcross 9:	Curry? Use some spices Kate roasted	ICE-SKATER
AAcross 10:	Cast of The Last of Us needing breather
AAcross 11:	Have something in common, done with drink
AAcross 12:	Ace rugby player, outstanding at the back, and fit
AAcross 13:	Successes as United start to press Son
AAcross 14:	Dorothy was sucked in by this con artist
AAcross 17:	Respect rocking Rod!
AAcross 19:	Picked up pearly queen's cocktail to examine closely
AAcross 22:	Rogue sealing heartless deal in scam
AAcross 24:	Sash in Bilbao, with alb braided all around
AAcross 25:	Herb for cooking free range ducks outside
AAcross 26:	Collar Scotsman, hooligan …
AAcross 28:	… smashing piano
AAcross 29:	Winner dispatching ball casually: score, deuce
AAcross 30:	Friendly relationship? It centred on brewing English beer bottles	ENTENTE CORDIALE
DDown 1:	Careless Whisper coming from faulty speaker?	SLIP OF THE TONGUE
DDown 2:	He played Superman, note, whom film was all about
DDown 3:	Close to Sgt Bilko, worried about new part of psychology test	INK-BLOT
DDown 4:	Time to take small teaspoonful for one kind of rash?
DDown 5:	Almost certain to go unnoticed in tower above
DDown 6:	Old British minister to spy
DDown 7:	Journalist supporting top space traveller Armstrong did this
DDown 8:	Busy surgeries tend to accommodate occasionally weary health worker	REGISTERED NURSE
DDown 15:	Popular poem cut short by worker, uncouth
DDown 16:	Slippery sort, somewhat unfeeling
DDown 18:	Firm with bully
DDown 20:	Leave what one wearing 24 has?
DDown 21:	A butcher's can get wrapping rump of steak	LOOK-SEE
DDown 22:	Wind from South Island with legendary bird beginning to circle round
DDown 23:	A slice from Hoddle, if nicely set up towards the box?
DDown 27:	Country inn Admiral regularly visited