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    Telegraph Toughie Answers - Thursday, 31st August 2023

    There are 16 across clues and 13 down clues for the Telegraph Toughie crossword on Thursday, 31st August 2023. View the answers below..
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    Number# Clue Answer
    AAcross 1: Primeval impulse at last gaining access to an awardAGE-OLD
    AAcross 5: Purchase gripping crime drama with excited glee
    AAcross 9: Jury witnessed cutting toolPANEL SAW
    AAcross 10: Divorces perpetually taking place in extremes of stress
    AAcross 11: Joy sets off from wild house parties
    AAcross 12: See 15 DownBUSINESS JARGON
    AAcross 13: Assume hospital's moved from spa town
    AAcross 15: Support beginning to turn for jackanapes
    AAcross 17: Internal visas approved now
    AAcross 19: Spikes cocktails?
    AAcross 20: Antiguan American relocated, wanting "No Trumps" – cold-blooded creature!
    AAcross 21: Part of keel reportedly one-and-a-third yards long
    AAcross 22: Last swallow
    AAcross 23: Nearer the source, M Pasteur flounders
    AAcross 24: Runner contemplates time that's most heavenly!
    AAcross 25: Offences involving sex producing protestsSIT-INS
    DDown 2: Sandy erects sun-god of silver, once with hint of gold
    DDown 3: Old surgeon taking in flightless bird that's become too feverish
    DDown 4: Possibly Tommy's having to abandon informerDESERT RAT
    DDown 5: Cherries, say, growing in hatfuls, unexpectedly not smallLOW-HANGING FRUIT
    DDown 6: Cheer up girl in middle of facelift with a bit of music
    DDown 7: They punish grievances painfully when in charge elsewhere
    DDown 8: Moderating exams, initially pausing for reviewEASING UP
    DDown 14: Article (gold) is tops for typically shrewd speculators
    DDown 15: Concern with Twitter corporation's language (as in 5a, 17a, 23a, 2d, 5d, 19d?)BUSINESS JARGON
    DDown 16: Catholic invocation chanted heavenward amidst atomic explosive going upAGNUS DEI
    DDown 17: Provoke annoyance with a satire about Foreign Office resistanceASK FOR IT
    DDown 18: Nato hub a complex way to proceed
    DDown 19: Yankee horses, leaping over heart of fence, showing harmony of muscles?
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