Telegraph Cryptic Answers - Wednesday, 22nd May 2024 There are 15 across clues and 17 down clues for the Telegraph Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 22nd May 2024. View the answers below.. Also try..All Telegraph Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Food for thought: technology reduces fat close to neckIT MAKES YOU THINKAAcross 9: Like Seurat painting compared to a Monet, say, and more off the wallDOTTIERAAcross 10: Pay trio for a makeover, and maybe Holly's cut and shapeTOPIARYAAcross 11: Stay with European, getting component for Native American hutLODGEPOLEAAcross 12: Sign that leads gents into ladies?LOGOAAcross 13: French art con copper probes in old Portuguese capitalESCUDOAAcross 15: Conservatives getting on screenOLD GUARDAAcross 18: Wind heralding depression in hostile placeSNAKE PITAAcross 18: Wind heralding depression in hostile placeSNAKEPITAAcross 19: Mostly dull article about fruitBANANAAAcross 22: Back Gunners to grab English striker at lastREARAAcross 23: Hoodlums go for Scots pilots half-heartedlyGANGSTERSAAcross 26: Learner in vehicle, one operating hornCLARIONAAcross 27: Some food on a table for group of insectsODONATAAAcross 28: Dancing on Ice, one album on very rarelyONCE IN A BLUE MOONDDown 1: Doctor eluding nannyINDULGEDDown 2: Set up of French corporation suppressedMUTEDDDown 3: One's keen and tense when on this?KNIFE-EDGEDDown 4: Kind and soft on the inside, as it wereSORT OFDDown 5: Shy, Elton going off under coverON THE SLYDDown 6: Gratuities rubbish here!TIPSDDown 7: Girlfriend flying to a marinaINAMORATADDown 8: "Yale motto"? Significant term in online searchesKEY WORDDDown 8: "Yale motto"? Significant term in online searchesKEYWORDDDown 14: Old bus's opening docked horse squeezes intoCHARABANCDDown 16: PM delighted with flag?GLADSTONEDDown 17: Tobacco plant that grows up wallsVIRGINIADDown 18: Spain knocked out of soccer 1-0, sadly. It's a blowSIROCCODDown 20: Muscles occasionally tear in declineABSTAINDDown 21: Details on a sorrel, finally pregnantIN FOALDDown 24: Time after time, Oscar's poetic inspiration?ERATODDown 25: What surfer taking tablet needs?WI-FI