Telegraph Cryptic Answers - Friday, 2nd August 2024

There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the Telegraph Cryptic crossword on Friday, 2nd August 2024. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Swimmer with partner often seen in newspaper	FISH AND CHIPS
AAcross 9:	Raise hell as youngest to tour exotic city	RUN RIOT
AAcross 10:	'Un peu de soda, vin, cidre' – French king's favourite	DA VINCI
AAcross 11:	Change seat and dance in place of drinking
AAcross 12:	Scoffed after label back-to-front becomes issue
AAcross 13:	Nought in English reading, writing and arithmetic – must be a mistake!
AAcross 14:	Say I'm up, conscious, oddly attending maiden conference
AAcross 16:	Line-up of clones tie for corruption
AAcross 19:	River creature, rat, finally put to flight
AAcross 21:	Coated in just egg, uncooked round pieces of chicken
AAcross 23:	Publish splash that's delivered from on high	AIR-DROP
AAcross 24:	One more ace, not hearts, followed by queen
AAcross 25:	Recipes may use 1 tsp of this, or say a number
AAcross 26:	Sun pin-up?	HEAVENLY BODY
DDown 1:	Helter-Skelter etc Fab Four originally based round a French song
DDown 2:	Creep turned on that woman after close of business
DDown 3:	Food social worker needed by 13:01
DDown 4:	Trick using quarter that's increased times ten initially
DDown 5:	Try and eat earlier	HAVE A GO
DDown 6:	Joke and poke one's tongue
DDown 7:	These married sisters	BROTHERS-IN-LAW
DDown 8:	Homer apt, conceivably, to say it's not rocket surgery?	MIXED METAPHOR
DDown 15:	Required staff prosecutor to crush Conservative
DDown 17:	No parking on drain, one hears!
DDown 18:	Playwright's payment from broadcast
DDown 19:	Poet's last revolutionary verse expert finds explosive
DDown 20:	Madonna's no time for loud, arty rocking	OUR LADY
DDown 22:	Who could lure Your Highness north?