Telegraph Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 9th January 2025 There are 14 across clues and 18 down clues for the Telegraph Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 9th January 2025. View the answers below.. Also try..All Telegraph Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Certain regular collecting runs for countySOMERSETAAcross 5: Sharp detectives in charge pursuing lead from associateACIDICAAcross 9: Marital cheat, Greek character, one wearing lotion mostlyCONNUBIALAAcross 11: Something launched that goes in the bin?LINERAAcross 12: Capital city I hardly left to go runningRIYADHAAcross 13: Brags of singular bets netting grandSWAGGERSAAcross 15: Fancy hotel one slept in that paparazzo usesTELEPHOTO LENSAAcross 18: We'd hear if cookery writer gets heavily sunburnt?WEATHER-BEATENAAcross 22: Unusually your doctor wastes time over such materialCORDUROYAAcross 23: Model, virtuous person possessing endless courage making comebackSCULPTAAcross 26: Professorship from Cambridge has academic in raptures initiallyCHAIRAAcross 27: Factory workers dispirited easilyHANDS DOWNAAcross 28: Modular home, awful fear it's covered with leadPREFABAAcross 29: Small issue involving a work by Turner, perhapsSEASCAPEDDown 1: Guarantee safetySECURITYDDown 2: Lots describing rear of racetrack as filthyMANKYDDown 3: How to raise numbers for herding of cattleROUND-UPDDown 4: As it happens, revolutionary is very unpleasantEVILDDown 6: Some women go loco over perfumeCOLOGNEDDown 7: Daughter and closest friends having matching tablewareDINNER SETDDown 8: Colour of church towerCERISEDDown 10: Tribunal right to block hooligan circling Gatwick regularlyLAW COURTDDown 10: Tribunal right to block hooligan circling Gatwick regularlyLAWCOURTDDown 14: Two bands held up to ridiculePOOH-POOHDDown 16: About to feed cows supplements, essentially small typeLOWER-CASEDDown 17: Case of ticks reportedINSTANCEDDown 19: Sign to secure advanced replacement for American tanksAQUARIADDown 20: Cuts out training sessions, wanting beer periodicallyEXCISESDDown 21: Feature of Poles in Katowice, capriciousness?ICE CAPDDown 21: Feature of Poles in Katowice, capriciousness?ICECAPDDown 24: Sponge dessert, flipping ace!LOOFADDown 25: Discontented colleague depressed by working previouslyONCE