Telegraph Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 26th December 2024

There are 14 across clues and 16 down clues for the Telegraph Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 26th December 2024. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	On the rocks, I can drag sand to son's bucket	RAIN CATS AND DOGS
AAcross 9:	Watch hourglass for cheats	TWO-TIMERS
AAcross 10:	For speech, remained sober
AAcross 11:	Short City fraud extremely idiotic
AAcross 12:	What disturbed cuckoo in Middle Wallop?
AAcross 15:	Spielberg initially accompanying shoot inspired by The Birds
AAcross 16:	Sat by me regularly? It's irritating
AAcross 19:	American with a year on holiday
AAcross 20:	German and Irish advanced in submarine
AAcross 23:	Left defeated
AAcross 24:	51 feet behind carriage, emergency transport
AAcross 26:	Pay for entertainment
AAcross 28:	Team's creative linchpin may sparkle in action with seconds to go
AAcross 29:	Rude jokes and drinks entertaining English nurse and doctor after ten	DOUBLE ENTENDRES
DDown 1:	Put out chops and old banger
DDown 2:	Press Blunt at home after answer reveals political divide	IRON CURTAIN
DDown 3:	Elegance of band on head
DDown 4:	Knight enters Chester suffering cuts
DDown 5:	Things worth having, like plants
DDown 6:	Reject racket broken by seed
DDown 7:	Virginia holding up round eggs
DDown 8:	Foam in the south of France beginning to spray
DDown 13:	Urbane and slippery sort, one taken in by sly cricket shot	CITY SLICKER
DDown 14:	We're on board at Paddington! Relaxed, rest up and read
DDown 17:	Popular prince followed by crawler – it might get up your nose!
DDown 18:	Getting 1 Across should be easy for him!
DDown 21:	The Spanish must support army shelter
DDown 22:	Subjects Pole fails in addition to PE
DDown 25:	Boss and apprentice leaving hospital department
DDown 27:	Australian resident cuts the mustard