Telegraph Cryptic Answers - Wednesday, 2nd October 2024 There are 16 across clues and 16 down clues for the Telegraph Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 2nd October 2024. View the answers below.. Also try..All Telegraph Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Yankee installed in new penthouse, part of triangleHYPOTENUSEAAcross 6: Old and locked up without care initiallyAGEDAAcross 10: Some occupy occasionally revolutionary South American nativeCOYPUAAcross 11: Spanish artist absorbed by very drunk man's mindless destructionVANDALISMAAcross 12: Brochure showing yearly rate allowedPAMPHLETAAcross 13: Academic protecting the old man at top of fieldDOYENAAcross 15: Meet and pay in fullSATISFYAAcross 17: Taxman confused about first of claims for pet, maybeMANX CATAAcross 19: Tried leaving hospital with strange body partEARDRUMAAcross 21: The essence of love by Italian dynastyROMANOVAAcross 22: Picked up post and something for dinnerSTEAKAAcross 24: Hungry – that's common sense after wild partyRAVENOUSAAcross 27: Work in lab coat dealing with plants?BOTANICALAAcross 28: Nothing bad about supplier of oilOLIVEAAcross 29: Beer measure?YARDAAcross 30: Warning better about golf index?FOREFINGERDDown 1: Wine writer with no answer for loveHOCKDDown 2: Financial officer may see student leaving drama teacherPAYMASTERDDown 3: Mostly genuine politician and presidentTRUMPDDown 4: Book covers of Tolstoy? A gimmickNOVELTYDDown 5: Second man cut off retreatSANCTUMDDown 7: Serious and ultimately very dirtyGRIMYDDown 8: Tiny fall about one sixtieth of a degree shortDIMINUTIVEDDown 9: Number once getting praise with an expression of hesitationLAUDANUMDDown 14: On the face of it, troubled boys listenOSTENSIBLYDDown 16: Creating a remarkable end to match?STRIKINGDDown 18: Bewildering argument against joiningCONFUSINGDDown 20: Mythical bird caught in low countryMOROCCODDown 21: Reassess leaver possibly going round universityREVALUEDDown 23: Apple perhaps may be one raising game, having missed startEATERDDown 25: Girl I complain aboutNAOMIDDown 26: Declare a recess, holding backREAR