Telegraph Cryptic Answers - Wednesday, 10th May 2023

There are 17 across clues and 14 down clues for the Telegraph Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 10th May 2023. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Attractive person used to be that lady's kitchen worker
AAcross 1:	Attractive person used to be that lady's kitchen worker
AAcross 6:	Part of tea chest is pine
AAcross 9:	Scot enters Post Office quietly
AAcross 10:	Clement's reason to buy gifts?
AAcross 12:	Member replacing front of holy book with clear characters
AAcross 13:	Family with guitar's beginning to make a sound like metal
AAcross 15:	Lofty journalist hiding latex pants
AAcross 16:	Time worker, say, has funny fit of temper
AAcross 18:	What writer may use in lines concluding novel I knew
AAcross 20:	English king with broody female on stage
AAcross 21:	Where Indian food's served hot in food shop
AAcross 23:	Before noon, Heather, Charlotte and Virginia are here
AAcross 25:	Unknown funding on vehicle for old Hollywood star	CARY GRANT
AAcross 26:	Name a filthy place, and how it might be described
AAcross 27:	Place to swim around in a circle
AAcross 28:	E.g. what beachcombers collect, we hear, in tropical islands
DDown 1:	English dessert, after turnover, is fool
DDown 2:	Stride around US shopping centre making chitchat	SMALL TALK
DDown 3:	Try to win over Liberal Party, indulging in fantasy	WOOL-GATHERING
DDown 4:	Notes young socialite knocked over piece of furniture	SOFA BED
DDown 5:	Serious Parisian is touring near Barking
DDown 7:	Tea bags in cups and saucers etc
DDown 8:	This could be a sign of love or of war
DDown 11:	Trouble using the lavatory
DDown 14:	Police raid organised at regular intervals
DDown 17:	Tries to infiltrate Spanish football team's practice
DDown 19:	A keg with ale gets broken – might this be the result?
DDown 20:	Thomas, say, shot pics etc
DDown 22:	Almost finished huge doughnut very slowly
DDown 24:	Runs from bee, we hear? Certainly!