Telegraph Cryptic Answers - Tuesday, 18th February 2025 There are 16 across clues and 16 down clues for the Telegraph Cryptic crossword on Tuesday, 18th February 2025. View the answers below.. Also try..All Telegraph Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Stressed cook smashed pieEMPHASISEDAAcross 6: Applaud cold drinkCLAPAAcross 10: Caught by ruffian's punchCLOUTAAcross 11: Traders from market express regret primarily with shoutsMERCHANTSAAcross 12: Reaction from press on alternative energyRESPONSEAAcross 13: Portly, slow, short EuropeanLARGEAAcross 15: This could be a craft I sculled on a regular basisARTICLEAAcross 17: Becoming woman's rear squeezed by code-breakerTURNINGAAcross 19: Bugs – burrowing beastsBADGERSAAcross 21: Church vicar forgetting middle of benedictionMINSTERAAcross 22: Criticise right answer son found in booksROASTAAcross 24: Haughty American leaders in Republican oration gloat during tiradeARROGANTAAcross 27: Former lover almost swearing about ordinary outingEXCURSIONAAcross 28: Novelist's wrongAMISSAAcross 29: Stuff oddly seen in Star TrekSATEAAcross 30: Shows salesman's bearing grudgeREPRESENTSDDown 1: Every account's limited by what?EACHDDown 2: Blighter pens rubbish, editor complainedPROTESTEDDDown 3: What thespian might do at college? MisbehaveACT UPDDown 4: Claim men seem somewhat hugeIMMENSEDDown 5: Sneer at drunk getting soberEARNESTDDown 7: Row river vesselLINERDDown 8: Travellers gorge on mixed greensPASSENGERSDDown 9: Urchin led astray but not upper-class kidsCHILDRENDDown 14: Awfully smug with her bar foodHAMBURGERSDDown 16: Animal from ancient city in fashionCREATUREDDown 18: Where camper might be initially insolent on purposeINTENTIONDDown 20: Beach view includes a small fishSEASIDEDDown 21: Jack's horse carrying present kingMARINERDDown 23: I bet here, perhaps, a Conservative enters drunkASCOTDDown 25: One who betrays German writerGRASSDDown 26: Sunbathes topless, making posesASKS