Telegraph Cryptic Answers - Friday, 20th October 2023

There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the Telegraph Cryptic crossword on Friday, 20th October 2023. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	City where treasure may be stored by bishop, say, and Queen
AAcross 6:	Clock set to go backwards
AAcross 9:	Food devoured by hippopotamus tastes revolting
AAcross 10:	Universe having no origin is absorbing
AAcross 12:	Team from 1 Across land here?	UNITED KINGDOM
AAcross 14:	Denounced cryptic e.g. with dim pun
AAcross 15:	A river bordered by bird burrows
AAcross 17:	Growth of passion -- 'Mail me back' getting oddly ignored
AAcross 19:	Ratty – Favourite Little Creature university student's penned
AAcross 21:	Lower chamber standing behind represented false humility	SELF-ABASEMENT
AAcross 24:	What might lead to whispers from Wuhan?
AAcross 25:	Oxygen contributes to exercising easing stress
AAcross 26:	This could be canned music – no energy, but it has a following
AAcross 27:	They rush over after wall's destroyed
DDown 1:	Bouquet for tech owner who added 'X' on …
DDown 2:	… bid to ban candidate?	NO-TRUMP
DDown 3:	Goal-fest at Everton … could be this home ground!	HOUSING ESTATE
DDown 4:	Engineer leaves the Spanish geographer's base	SEA LEVEL
DDown 5:	He'd blog regularly – pretty good work on screen	E-BOOK
DDown 7:	Local alcohol delivered for member of the club
DDown 8:	Eleventh-hour stay, little to the south	LAST-MINUTE
DDown 11:	Families may be putting in this reduced model of course	MINIATURE GOLF
DDown 13:	Feline – Matisse fancifully captures one that's played up	SIAMESE CAT
DDown 16:	Pass on portion of sweet, a gel Edward flipped over
DDown 18:	Number whose abbreviation would be its square root in Rome
DDown 20:	Self-built small ground-level home, not flat	ANT-HILL
DDown 22:	Field that takes an age to turn over
DDown 23:	Imprisons writers