Telegraph Cryptic Answers - Tuesday, 6th August 2024 There are 16 across clues and 16 down clues for the Telegraph Cryptic crossword on Tuesday, 6th August 2024. View the answers below.. Also try..All Telegraph Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Artist's picture? Animal, not a dicky-birdPICASSOAAcross 5: Expert upset swapping power with kingSKILLEDAAcross 9: Professional is enthralled by this compiler's potentialPROMISEAAcross 10: Trendy teen's dancing is impassionedINTENSEAAcross 11: Getting smaller fish going round city in GermanyLESSENINGAAcross 12: Wind section's leader dancesREELSAAcross 13: Understands frog's last disappearing croaksRASPSAAcross 15: Former lover no oil painting, Edward rationalisedEXPLAINEDAAcross 17: Shocks us with riper bananas aboard shipSURPRISESAAcross 19: Bare back in tremendous, stimulating experienceSTRIPAAcross 22: Supply problem is flipping EU'sISSUEAAcross 23: Cricketer going to main part of LondonBATTERSEAAAcross 25: US writer and editor getting hammeredPOUNDEDAAcross 26: Clear five promissory notes with old boy firstOBVIOUSAAcross 27: Justify diet, oddly, and give out food in restaurant?DESERVEAAcross 28: I stress about relativesSISTERSDDown 1: Liked tree outside universityPOPULARDDown 2: Opposes what bad pupils are given?CROSSESDDown 3: Capture spies, we're toldSEIZEDDown 4: Cracks on English shipsONE-LINERSDDown 5: Pop star's time engaged in what he might do?STINGDDown 6: Breaks tin salver, unfortunatelyINTERVALSDDown 7: Large and tailless bird is lightLANTERNDDown 8: Doctor sees wound daughter bandagedDRESSEDDDown 14: Cave in ancient city ruins initially captured in posterSURRENDERDDown 16: Skin regularly covered by medicinal liquids gets spotsPOSITIONSDDown 17: Cut head on stone then sleptSKIPPEDDDown 18: Releases key on computer in regret, abashed at heartRESCUESDDown 20: Food from Romeo is stuck on bottom of shoeRISSOLEDDown 21: Commends putting pressure on pay increasesPRAISESDDown 23: Stir gallons in Cornish townBUDGEDDown 24: Travel visa restricting the kingELVIS