Telegraph Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 5th October 2023

There are 17 across clues and 15 down clues for the Telegraph Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 5th October 2023. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Sewer rats seem to move around ship
AAcross 6:	Short bit of theatre for men only
AAcross 9:	Popular goalie, to an extent, played at a slow pace
AAcross 10:	Little bit miserable, getting a football score
AAcross 10:	Little bit miserable, getting a football score
AAcross 12:	Thin kind of crumpet – or a small fish?
AAcross 13:	Heading for Lyon? I'm going to eastern French city
AAcross 15:	Chilled wine, eating large chop
AAcross 16:	Rowdy painter, oddly uncool American
AAcross 18:	Parisian is interrupting 1980s pop group in London club	WEST HAM
AAcross 20:	A shrink treated revered figure in India
AAcross 21:	Font used by Catholics?
AAcross 23:	Opening of festival not just in amusement park
AAcross 25:	Press editor, penning lines, talked rubbish
AAcross 26:	European PM moving back to the front
AAcross 27:	Like e.g. two, four, six and seventeen? Not entirely
AAcross 28:	Believe these reprobates were expelled from garden	ADAM AND EVE
DDown 1:	Season starts off sunny and largely temperate
DDown 2:	Incredibly cool Paris monument
DDown 3:	You might get bulls here from cattle trade	STOCK EXCHANGE
DDown 4:	Disconcerted daughter holding up toy
DDown 5:	Ramble in nature's organised
DDown 7:	Go for a walk topless, and provoke people online
DDown 8:	Biscuit break introduced by one of the Spice Girls
DDown 8:	Biscuit break introduced by one of the Spice Girls
DDown 11:	A sight seen on a trip?
DDown 14:	Defence against attackers in, say, nil-nil game
DDown 17:	Alternatively, this could make The i worse
DDown 19:	Male and upper-class female scarpered, wrapped up warmly
DDown 20:	Barking dog dressed in fancy mink in royal domain
DDown 22:	Tory Theresa's said something corny?
DDown 24:	One goes on foot with that lady round Oman's capital