Telegraph Cryptic Answers - Monday, 15th May 2023

There are 17 across clues and 16 down clues for the Telegraph Cryptic crossword on Monday, 15th May 2023. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Legitimate line, thoroughly unpleasant
AAcross 5:	Bar over in parlour
AAcross 10:	One close to Nancy, one of the Mitfords
AAcross 11:	Author's record win at swimming	MARK TWAIN
AAcross 12:	Discussion group remains uncertain
AAcross 13:	Budding, infinite number with a pleasant smell
AAcross 14:	Put a stopwatch on game of snooker for a specified period?
AAcross 14:	Put a stopwatch on game of snooker for a specified period?
AAcross 17:	Book reckless forward
AAcross 18:	Garden plants in clusters, from what we hear
AAcross 19:	Going nowhere, like a team that's lost every match?
AAcross 21:	Fabled monster in rhyme, tailless rat
AAcross 23:	Clothing Australian's mate left inside
AAcross 25:	Awful nuisance engaging bouncer, ultimately for protection
AAcross 26:	Onset of storm affected little monkey
AAcross 27:	Girl riding, changing ends	INGRID
AAcross 28:	Extremely reasonable late meal
DDown 2:	Self-evident statement made by a cross on Irish Sea island
DDown 3:	Moving quickly to confuse bat	FLYING FOX
DDown 4:	Primate's capital broadcast
DDown 5:	See tiger roaming round northern plain
DDown 6:	A great many besieging uranium plant
DDown 7:	Typically old, part of church seen before storm	ON AVERAGE
DDown 8:	Start completely determined
DDown 9:	Steal tin at church
DDown 15:	Actor from Maine beginning to learn on American guitar	MEL GIBSON
DDown 16:	Without any complications in Naples and at sea	AS PLANNED
DDown 17:	Last drink, so here's to you!	BOTTOMS UP
DDown 18:	To eat out is an easy thing to do
DDown 20:	Band in street on right
DDown 22:	Blunder made by troublesome child forgetting time
DDown 23:	Explicit about writer of nonsense verse
DDown 24:	Nerve of supporters on top of stand