Telegraph Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 5th December 2024 There are 16 across clues and 16 down clues for the Telegraph Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 5th December 2024. View the answers below.. Also try..All Telegraph Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Father and Lord before a templePAGODAAAcross 5: Close to ease, occasionally, in stayBESIDEAAcross 10: Astral region in endless space, initiallyARIESAAcross 11: Females engendering pride?LIONESSESAAcross 12: Showing class, that is, wearing glassesSPECIESAAcross 13: Makes time to acquire European firmEARNESTAAcross 14: Pain again with ruler, virtually thrashedNEURALGIAAAcross 17: Cancel Times and Express, firstlyERASEAAcross 18: Start to smell border plantSEDGEAAcross 19: Huge riots turned out justifiedRIGHTEOUSAAcross 21: Ruin single holding can for drinkMARTINIAAcross 23: New fans backing Queen sensationSTUNNERAAcross 25: Restore control immediately facing sweetheartREINSTATEAAcross 26: Home of a man, perhaps EnglishABODEAAcross 27: Worship till doomsday in empty raptureREVEREAAcross 28: Capital of Israel?SHEKELDDown 2: Breathing verse into a taleALIVEDDown 3: Persistent smell rises, say, around currentOBSTINATEDDown 4: Ace mariner turned up mapsATLASDDown 5: Ricochet blast resounded containing energyBOOMERANGDDown 6: One is part of cattle driveSTEERDDown 7: Rope's dead wrong for criminalDESPERADODDown 8: Clergyman preacher's opening on incendiary activityPARSONDDown 9: Fly is oddly tested twiceTSETSEDDown 15: Flounder's identified partially seeing bottomUNDERSIDEDDown 16: Sprout eaten with grim cookingGERMINATEDDown 17: From continent our agenda includes trainENTOURAGEDDown 18: Gloomy doctor consumed by afflictionSOMBREDDown 20: Sunday's first canon producing long sermon?SCREEDDDown 22: Offspring possibly in one's chargeISSUEDDown 23: Spot on manuscript appearsSEEMSDDown 24: Beak accepts old form of executionNOOSE