Telegraph Cryptic Answers - Monday, 28th August 2023 There are 16 across clues and 16 down clues for the Telegraph Cryptic crossword on Monday, 28th August 2023. View the answers below.. Also try..All Telegraph Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Mad reason for moving from place to placeLOCOMOTIVEAAcross 6: Cost of travel and foodFAREAAcross 10: Controls in Spitfire inspectedREINSAAcross 11: Fair at English, one taking an examinationCANDIDATEAAcross 12: Large crowd heard in front of giant billboardHOARDINGAAcross 13: Open's finished – amateur's fourthOVERTAAcross 15: Composer, shortly after tea, gets a white wineCHABLISAAcross 17: Nuclear device, American, described by ministerREACTORAAcross 19: See husband in Christmas show close to grim ghostPHANTOMAAcross 21: Fine offer excited ItalianFORFEITAAcross 22: Allow female relative timeGRANTAAcross 24: Glove female relative left in pocketGAUNTLETAAcross 27: Over in a group that's maroonedABANDONEDAAcross 28: Magnificent run out set recalledROYALAAcross 29: Regular flatEVENAAcross 30: An act with cross somehow regarded as holySACROSANCTDDown 1: Poet dropping in for a bit of harmless funLARKDDown 2: Oil patch spread around a bangerCHIPOLATADDown 3: Endless grief for Scrooge, perhapsMISERDDown 4: Diplomacy is to adopt Charlie's strategyTACTICSDDown 5: Might this be given a shaking before start of repast?VINEGARDDown 7: Saw a daughter matureADAGEDDown 8: Those qualified to vote choose to speakELECTORATEDDown 9: Old fogey ruins a do, sadlyDINOSAURDDown 14: Incorrigible scoundrel beginning to seduce head girlSCAPEGRACEDDown 16: Learner driver with insolent manner, reportedly, produces licenceLATITUDEDDown 18: See, in dubious tavern, a Bond villainTREVELYANDDown 20: Scholar's written about spy in battleMAGENTADDown 21: Go down for father?FOUNDERDDown 23: Conscious of a conflict with SpainAWAREDDown 25: Names such as Hilary and the like?TERMSDDown 26: Conspiracy of fifty on board vesselPLOT