Telegraph Cryptic Answers - Friday, 4th October 2024

There are 15 across clues and 16 down clues for the Telegraph Cryptic crossword on Friday, 4th October 2024. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Congratulatory gestures: give baked goods to Spooner
AAcross 6:	Strokes of strong swimmers
AAcross 9:	Apt decoration reflected theme
AAcross 10:	Working laboriously, runner struggling after second of events
AAcross 11:	Sportsperson's tour with the French jersey	TRIPLE-JUMPER
AAcross 14:	Wrongfully torch bridges in ancient city
AAcross 16:	Space around plant native to Asia, perhaps
AAcross 17:	It's locked in aboard
AAcross 18:	Regularly taken ale in pub; daily mass relief for chaps	LIP BALM
AAcross 20:	Picked up sweets and leaves
AAcross 22:	Fairy tale adapted: hot news piece	THE SNOW QUEEN
AAcross 26:	Once more went in grass concealing key	RE-ENTERED
AAcross 27:	Note first of boyfriends always returning
AAcross 28:	Large passage in shop out of a type of thread
AAcross 29:	Being subversive, small amendment added to promissory notes
DDown 1:	Pack up book that might be mine
DDown 2:	Attractive copper item uncovered
DDown 3:	A fine father feeding child culinary plant
DDown 4:	Storyteller matures with release of good work
DDown 5:	Pig tender when I dress cut and wound
DDown 6:	Prefers low-scoring cards, holding a five
DDown 7:	Great attempt to consume US author's lengthy works	EPIC POETRY
DDown 8:	Starter of soup with bananas sure gains sweet quality
DDown 12:	Botched up last curl of carving
DDown 13:	Support that man and girl in Wessex seeing soothsayer
DDown 15:	Sound of cat going between stores in direction of residence
DDown 19:	Name of female figure in Sicilian mount climbing	ANNETTE
DDown 21:	Group scoffing aromatic confectionery
DDown 23:	Pundit trashing wingers with Germany nullified
DDown 24:	Worthless person about to enter Australia from south
DDown 25:	Workers ignoring Ts and Cs in BTEC test