Telegraph Toughie Answers - Thursday, 12th October 2023 There are 13 across clues and 16 down clues for the Telegraph Toughie crossword on Thursday, 12th October 2023. View the answers below.. Also try..All Telegraph Toughie AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 8: Current Conservative facing sack over incident ultimately that's untrueINEXACTAAcross 10: Flatter ground a tad gluey, lacking coverADULATEAAcross 11: Sweet idol relishes every so often retired boxer's protectionGUMSHIELDAAcross 12: Suppose plenipotentiary's to some extent revolutionaryOPINEAAcross 13: Called Yorkshire's opener "long-legged"RANGYAAcross 14: Vegetable wine idiot will guzzle? On the contraryCASSAVAAAcross 17: Seaside town, resort two men pressure American to visitWESTON-SUPER-MAREAAcross 19: Filled with grief, pal felt he's occasionally lostREPLETEAAcross 21: Peeping Tom emerges from hearing earlierPRYERAAcross 24: Most awful defeatWORSTAAcross 26: Actor was furious with Scotsman after termination of contractTRAGEDIANAAcross 27: Instrument, one held by a Corsican, sadly so scratchedOCARINAAAcross 28: Falls once more, going west around centre of CarmarthenNIAGARADDown 1: Remain behind selling ermine coatsLINGERDDown 2: No female natives of Flanders will keep minute rodentsLEMMINGSDDown 3: Tearful scholar, disturbed about my raised voice finallyLACHRYMOSEDDown 4: Picture of antelope's better moving heading to the bottomLANDSCAPEDDown 5: Extremely unnatural being upset over party gameLUDODDown 6: Posh boy advanced to embrace princessLA-DI-DADDown 7: Advantage in student meeting Australian TV celebrityLEVERAGEDDown 9: Reportedly make fun of bankerTEESDDown 15: Dismantled late MP's car that's found in junkyardSCRAP METALDDown 16: Key people mostly returning to support German cityESSENTIALDDown 17: Abrasive European in Irish court left following wifeWIRE WOOLDDown 18: Play, Act I cast finding unusualATYPICALDDown 20: Door of sports hall repeatedly out of boundsPORTALDDown 22: Cost of letting different Aldershot housesRENTALDDown 23: Troublesome individual that Parisians toast?PAINDDown 25: Labour triumph's beginning to be undermined by smearTOIL