Telegraph Toughie Answers - Friday, 20th January 2023

There are 16 across clues and 17 down clues for the Telegraph Toughie crossword on Friday, 20th January 2023. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Malaysian capital detaining group linked to a secret doctrine
AAcross 5:	The benefit of not being well?	SICK PAY
AAcross 9:	Binds broken bobsleigh whose frame has split
AAcross 10:	Former lady's maid advanced with considerable trouble
AAcross 11:	Comrade Victor has converted
AAcross 12:	More than one stretch breaks back
AAcross 13:	Finally weeping, overwhelmed by dreadful air at funeral
AAcross 15:	Area offering the greatest latitude, in a negative sense
AAcross 17:	Hip person looking on, but not at, examiner
AAcross 19:	Nothing must stop academic demonstration
AAcross 22:	Intensity of final farewell following heart transplant?
AAcross 23:	Subject of test words that may follow French and precede Latin?	GUINEA PIG
AAcross 25:	Edges of nail-head left in flat wheel
AAcross 26:	Roland endlessly bored by dame's male friend	OLD BEAN
AAcross 27:	Complaints made by short thick wife and kids on vacation
AAcross 28:	Try on extremely stiff new pants	Y-FRONTS
DDown 1:	Tangled bird spread out to dry
DDown 2:	Statesman, as it happens, almost bitten by animal
DDown 3:	Diviner month, you said, before year's end
DDown 4:	Helping first worker to support Charlie
DDown 5:	Break bread
DDown 6:	Using which a rider may secure essential cover
DDown 6:	Using which a rider may secure essential cover
DDown 7:	Rustic type of game that's not hard
DDown 8:	Ultimately try to fill barrel up wherein soldiers may go for a dip?	YOLK SAC
DDown 14:	Slap detective and cryptically murder playwright
DDown 16:	Sin and sex repressed by Conservative jurisdiction
DDown 17:	Sea tide briefly changed, trapping old salts
DDown 18:	Allies picking up equipment for those who treat rising cause of death in Asia
DDown 20:	Melodious harp one played	ORPHEAN
DDown 21:	Worthless bits of objects aimed at bolstering fine silver	FAG ENDS
DDown 23:	Visitor all but seconds judge
DDown 24:	Source of down clue I derived to some extent