Telegraph Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 4th July 2024

There are 16 across clues and 16 down clues for the Telegraph Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 4th July 2024. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Lovers usually embracing, playing
AAcross 5:	Factories producing brooms?
AAcross 10:	Saw maturity on promotion
AAcross 11:	Celebrated list including Independent journalist
AAcross 12:	Indiscretion with girl and sweetheart flipped
AAcross 13:	Time with stranger swallowing large tot
AAcross 14:	Catch terrible cheat causing anguish
AAcross 17:	Sicken on board boats, perhaps
AAcross 18:	Animal catching bird in both hands?
AAcross 19:	During lessons, laugh, turning offensive
AAcross 21:	Make tighter, possibly using a spanner?
AAcross 23:	Endure shame following American around
AAcross 25:	Drop off after fall?
AAcross 26:	On river one sees lake bird
AAcross 27:	Break from church day in diocese
AAcross 28:	Quietly let out cheer
DDown 2:	Maxes out tests
DDown 3:	Protects a worried witness
DDown 4:	Drinks up, causing bad temper
DDown 5:	Slept in, so turned unproductive
DDown 6:	Top Democrat admitting Trump's first behaved
DDown 7:	Sensational tweeting about nothing, essentially
DDown 8:	Contest match oddly creating friendship
DDown 9:	Trouble on Royal Navy's decks
DDown 15:	Fine top sailor embracing British sweetheart
DDown 16:	Enclosure crammed keeping Queen band together	CO-OPERATE
DDown 17:	Reduces sound covering old rock
DDown 18:	Detest the French, stifling expletive
DDown 20:	Shiver being left in shade
DDown 22:	Source of grief in terrible lament
DDown 23:	Strips, turning over for nap
DDown 24:	Awfully silly sausages, even stupid initially