Telegraph Cryptic Answers - Friday, 3rd November 2023 There are 13 across clues and 16 down clues for the Telegraph Cryptic crossword on Friday, 3rd November 2023. View the answers below.. Also try..All Telegraph Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 9: Visitor soon is packing trunkTORSOAAcross 10: American banker in Olympic city facing dreadful dangerRIO GRANDEAAcross 11: Ridicule Australian oaf going into empty monasteryMOCKERYAAcross 12: A little silent about old retired detectivesMODICUMAAcross 13: Steal fruit, almost two packs together?SCRUMAAcross 14: Dog wagging tail and circling old ladyDALMATIANAAcross 16: Maybe Tony runs more than small football club?BLACKBURN ROVERSAAcross 19: Something read perhaps daily in the pastPAPERBACKAAcross 21: Journalist receiving award for insertEMBEDAAcross 23: Lethargy fiancée Ruth is occasionally beginning to addressINERTIAAAcross 25: Mistakes medical conditionRICKETSAAcross 27: Evening in Leamington arranged that lacks nothingALIGNMENTAAcross 28: Observes determined revolutionaryNOTESDDown 1: Hysteria essentially filling this writer's articleITEMDDown 2: Shopkeeper, comparatively stupid it's saidGROCERDDown 3: Mary keen somehow to support second lucrative schemeMONEYMAKERDDown 4: Father's coat always ragged ultimately and threadbareFRAYEDDDown 5: Figure student must possess a popular antisepticFORMALINDDown 6: Something you currently regard as grating?GRIDDDown 7: Dedicate victory, heading off to meet reporterINSCRIBEDDown 8: Lectured one remiss sadly over daughterSERMONISEDDDown 13: Mediocre pub, almost run-down, one entersSUBOPTIMALDDown 15: Scaling limits unemployment benefit for young personADOLESCENTDDown 17: Tech firm, good reportedly for such an orderAPPLE-PIEDDown 18: Some grouse, raw, an underling served up inadvertentlyUNAWARESDDown 20: Ace, right to engage in major royal sportKARATEDDown 22: Acts regularly to stop plant falling over in windBREATHDDown 24: Small rebellion Greek character dismissedTINYDDown 26: Okay with ordinary distress call being raisedSO-SO