Telegraph Cryptic Answers - Tuesday, 20th February 2024

There are 14 across clues and 16 down clues for the Telegraph Cryptic crossword on Tuesday, 20th February 2024. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Part of book from fellow writer reduced by 50 per cent
AAcross 5:	Incompetent former tennis player taken in by American
AAcross 9:	God, your leaders have dropped bouquet!
AAcross 10:	Crooked dice – and it showed
AAcross 11:	Vessels, for instance, at sea with no female
AAcross 12:	Pig swallowing last of corn flakes
AAcross 14:	Carefully, French composer cut grass somewhere in Cambridgeshire
AAcross 18:	Show relative daughter, Joanna	CONCERT GRAND
AAcross 21:	Just working before end of financial year
AAcross 22:	Romeo and Oscar in bath with a gloomy singer
AAcross 25:	Spoke to lad left cut and bandaged
AAcross 26:	Spiral-horned animal amateur held back in North America
AAcross 27:	Nurses interrupting diagnosis tersely
AAcross 28:	Like a happy face? Artist didn't, after change of heart
DDown 1:	Finest ice-cream not cold in the middle
DDown 2:	Measure a horse
DDown 3:	Leant on the tree and collapsed
DDown 4:	Rule check discussed
DDown 5:	Boxers perhaps disorientated – dare we run?
DDown 6:	Every adult caught in what?
DDown 7:	Ten teens forged alliances
DDown 8:	How a crab moves rocks, getting fish inside
DDown 13:	Supported principal group of volunteers once in education
DDown 15:	Concerns about interrupting in exams
DDown 16:	People in the circus lifting whale? Crazy!
DDown 17:	Comprehends clues I'd composed around November
DDown 19:	Piece of music child put on a tad short
DDown 20:	Unruly European king managed to be on time
DDown 23:	Some chauffeured dutifully over part of Jersey?
DDown 24:	Present from the woman he'd unwrapped