Telegraph Cryptic Answers - Monday, 6th January 2025 There are 16 across clues and 16 down clues for the Telegraph Cryptic crossword on Monday, 6th January 2025. View the answers below.. Also try..All Telegraph Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: A container with a type of meat, brought back for His Highness?MAHARAJAAAcross 5: Eats fast and makes snide commentsSCOFFSAAcross 9: A solicitor's livelihood, perhaps, that makes for perfection?PRACTICEAAcross 10: Part of description needed for castSCRIPTAAcross 12: Paint Mr James maybe, returning to natureDISTEMPERAAcross 13: Victor going topless? That's part of the target!INNERAAcross 14: Join, with an objection?ABUTAAcross 16: Agrees to change Sierra's lubricantsGREASESAAcross 19: Character of the first noted individual?PERSONAAAcross 21: Show a prisoner in the mirror, perhapsGALAAAcross 24: Figures made from silicone snapCONESAAcross 25: Lame storm possibly becoming a danger to shipping?MAELSTROMAAcross 27: Being eaten by human? I'm alarmedANIMALAAcross 28: Abrupt request after dinner for proof of identity?PASSPORTAAcross 29: Empty one's lungs: no longer fit and wellEXHALEAAcross 30: Occasional table, kind of?PERIODICDDown 1: Brooded on the last of useless vehiclesMOPEDSDDown 2: Listen to someone totally vacant in black car?HEARSEDDown 3: Concerning neckwear – knot againRETIEDDown 4: Flag best raised to get a lot of moneyJACKPOTDDown 6: Joyce regularly served up unusual Chilean redCOCHINEALDDown 7: Show head justiceFAIRNESSDDown 8: Agitated star: is it this writer?SATIRISTDDown 11: Amphibian confused for goodFROGDDown 15: Reserves unlikely retail outletBOOKSTALLDDown 17: Clever chap gathering speed – it started with rocketsSPACE AGEDDown 18: Display that's a bit like a trademark?BRANDISHDDown 20: High point for Wile E. Coyote's supplier?ACMEDDown 21: Danger to blow up first of explosives – with this?GRENADEDDown 22: Fellow from a senior service, elderlyARNOLDDDown 23: Time to get drunk in the City? It'll make you sick!EMETICDDown 26: Food gives us hiccups, to some extentSUSHI