Telegraph Toughie Answers - Wednesday, 24th May 2023

There are 15 across clues and 15 down clues for the Telegraph Toughie crossword on Wednesday, 24th May 2023. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Come before quiet official, almost give up
AAcross 9:	Game ended early after Border's returning smears
AAcross 10:	Cycling soldiers cut off fools in a group	EN MASSE
AAcross 11:	Advance made more attractive when little interest is shown?
AAcross 12:	Iliad rewritten to include western festival	DIWALI
AAcross 13:	Dry, heated up and ultimately arid
AAcross 15:	Sadly, a journalist wrote this old piece
AAcross 16:	Working soldier sent back driver with American airhead
AAcross 21:	Type of horn found in Timbuktu backwater
AAcross 22:	Hero, at first hot, abject in ordering assassination	HATCHET JOB
AAcross 24:	Vices discovered, confine in cooler
AAcross 25:	Clarifies what Slimmer of the Week's previous reading shows?
AAcross 27:	Critical trap Gerald heartlessly produces
AAcross 28:	Is old country singer in area of rock that's folded?
AAcross 29:	Satisfied tool's procedures
DDown 2:	Choppy brine covers new motorway and one group of fens
DDown 3:	Tea, bit of butter all but oblige bread
DDown 4:	Home, about to be supplanted by underworld in contention
DDown 5:	Battle supplies hidden by retreating commander
DDown 6:	Speaker for a Tory's selection
DDown 7:	Quiet drink, boozer's fourth, produces sentimental singing
DDown 8:	Raises a stink, abandoning tango with police officer
DDown 11:	Princes' mother keeps housing prince
DDown 14:	Disperse protest, anger spreading around island
DDown 17:	Expression of dismay's no good for women's power
DDown 18:	Detested sailor scraped around bishop
DDown 19:	Bill steals, according to hearsay, legendary creature
DDown 20:	Subdues child one's taken on
DDown 23:	Frequently sanctimonious about universal right
DDown 26:	Force tense after row