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Telegraph Cryptic Answers - Wednesday, 17th May 2023

There are 14 across clues and 16 down clues for the Telegraph Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 17th May 2023. View the answers below..

The Answers

Number# Clue Answer
AAcross 1: It's used when pressing club directors to gather in £1,000IRONING-BOARD
AAcross 9: Composed rock and bop, as making an album
AAcross 10: Meat which might be roasted, or it could get smoked
AAcross 11: Tiny Tim nearly holds back feeling of ill-will
AAcross 12: Bishop woke in south coast resort
AAcross 13: This helps people find dates in dry wood
AAcross 14: Crazy gathering attended by Alice and a group of RepublicansTEA PARTY
AAcross 17: Perhaps a little tot, about to go to bed?
AAcross 19: Romeo tucks into pasta sauce very quickly
AAcross 22: Favouring parts of speech in Biblical book
AAcross 24: Blazing a trail finally welcomed by celebrity
AAcross 26: Unfamiliar words used in Klingon
AAcross 27: Money writers earn from palace connections?
AAcross 28: Having the blues record playing at such an advanced hour
DDown 1: Look at Portugal's capital – perhaps fly around it
DDown 2: Crew members, terrible moaners
DDown 3: This person's someone seeing a doctor for rash
DDown 4: Maybe Spike Milligan's rabbitGO ON
DDown 5: Woodland sights – wild rose and teakOAK TREES
DDown 6: Give a new arrangement to covers of reggae and dance
DDown 7: Elon Musk's company ignoring leader's babble
DDown 8: Like Scrooge's con trick, getting last of money
DDown 15: Silly fool to rip artist's case
DDown 16: Two pubs – extremely idiotic and uncivilised
DDown 17: Bottle top very gently placed in river
DDown 18: Crushed in golf over eighteen holes
DDown 20: Power at mains supply
DDown 21: Manage with poetry that's in Old English
DDown 23: City given crude oil – this may cause complaintE COLI
DDown 25: French football team only needing to move on
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