Telegraph Toughie Answers - Tuesday, 16th May 2023

There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the Telegraph Toughie crossword on Tuesday, 16th May 2023. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Bone buried in barrow at the point of death
AAcross 5:	Tool is grabbed by team when water cut off
AAcross 9:	Shift first of ice blocking dogsled on the move
AAcross 10:	Clear butter quantity probed by all fingers and thumbs, say?
AAcross 11:	Red little mark, fancifully?
AAcross 12:	Shark, teeth like efficient razors, all initially going after fish with tail ripped off
AAcross 13:	Drink: good inn can do it on the rocks	GIN AND TONIC
AAcross 16:	Statesman's concern with extra weight carried?
AAcross 21:	Cut off, one thus gone
AAcross 22:	Shabby material covering plain silk
AAcross 23:	Wait in back of limo, opening some American wine?
AAcross 24:	Brass bar as plunger?
AAcross 25:	Setter messed up further attempt at passing
AAcross 26:	Fights during preliminary race, most serious
DDown 1:	Fashionable second course
DDown 2:	Wrapped in material, case of Soave shut up again
DDown 3:	Footwear on pirate
DDown 4:	Keats' almost sensational feeling about a subject of one of his odes
DDown 6:	Audio equipment offering choice of call, character phoning home
DDown 7:	Cash fine
DDown 8:	Ability to read story filled with smut, ultimately somewhat indecorous
DDown 12:	Soldier on manoeuvres nearing the welcoming capital in Havana	HANG IN THERE
DDown 14:	German writer beginning on scarier, terrifying tale
DDown 15:	Current crossed by lads aboard craft – lighter?
DDown 17:	Equines working a long time, guzzling last of water
DDown 18:	Author in front standing to pen new book
DDown 19:	Use force to get a compliment
DDown 20:	Stuck in branches, treetop close, perhaps?