Telegraph Cryptic Answers - Monday, 26th June 2023 There are 16 across clues and 13 down clues for the Telegraph Cryptic crossword on Monday, 26th June 2023. View the answers below.. Also try..All Telegraph Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Heavy food awkward to digest without itSTODGEAAcross 5: Day of celebration, perhaps, in flats I've renovatedFESTIVALAAcross 9: Speak, interrupting very different type of prophetSOOTHSAYERAAcross 10: Measure some chinchillasINCHAAcross 11: Drink Italian provided after a rep returnedAPERITIFAAcross 12: US prosecutor needs to disguise materialDAMASKAAcross 13: Record temperature, then take offTAPEAAcross 15: Cooking method, first of three broadcast on radioTANDOORIAAcross 18: Sorry tale about legal document excluding womenCONTRITEAAcross 19: Papers produced by the French unemployedIDLEAAcross 21: Failing to change sidesDEFECTAAcross 23: Sort of menu left next to a trolley in A&EA LA CARTEAAcross 25: Dog's breakfast in canteenMESSAAcross 26: One may be used to exercise in Delhi gym, maybeINDIAN CLUBAAcross 27: Impressed by energy chargeSTAMPEDEAAcross 28: Poet in dreary studyDRYDENDDown 2: Body of soldiers, tense, without means to ascendTROOPDDown 3: Put off by fellow cleanerDETERGENTDDown 4: Rates unusual zircon, initially, as imitationERSATZDDown 5: Lose it, knowing of article supporting female nameFLY OFF THE HANDLEDDown 6: Loud type of jazz music – name trio's leaderSTRIDENTDDown 7: Turn of phrase I love about Diane and MikeIDIOMDDown 8: Inherited a northern castle? Oddly, that's about rightANCESTRALDDown 14: Reparation from that one mentionedATONEMENTDDown 16: Form of government that may make one go charilyOLIGARCHYDDown 17: Face endless people giving a torrent of abuseDIATRIBEDDown 20: Comic circulating an unfounded rumourCANARDDDown 22: Course record therefore momentous, originallyEPSOMDDown 24: Ceasefire, short, set up on baseTRUCE