Telegraph Toughie Answers - Wednesday, 1st May 2024 There are 14 across clues and 16 down clues for the Telegraph Toughie crossword on Wednesday, 1st May 2024. View the answers below.. Also try..All Telegraph Toughie AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Lefty in spot – growth deliveredMARXISTAAcross 5: Go back with boyfriend, one who wants to stay in?BATSMANAAcross 9: Tendency of lead character to display cleavageDRIFTAAcross 10: Man on board attracted to English woman at last shows faceENCOUNTERAAcross 11: Hint for stage, having admitted new independent operators?FREE AGENTSAAcross 12: Cockney's satnav announcement on arrival becoming unwanted productUREAAAcross 14: Appeal judge in chargeINTEREST RATEAAcross 18: Worried Spar's restricting lease over joint head of supermarket's concernsPARTNERSHIPSAAcross 21: Settled, broken by pressure to reject strikesTAPSAAcross 22: Advanced cuts squeezing meagre benefitsALLOWANCESAAcross 25: Soldier on exercise, Spartan, crushing resistancePERSEVEREAAcross 26: Layer cake at the edges thusHENCEAAcross 27: Most blue Democrats seen in dubious seatsSADDESTAAcross 28: Improves from cutting drink a littleTARTS UPDDown 1: Tweak food from time to time, providing cracking goodnessMODIFYDDown 2: Provoked opponents, loading rifleRAISEDDDown 3: Endless hair colourings applied before showering and using conditioner?IN TRAININGDDown 4: Issue latest in correct pronounsTHEMEDDown 5: Prominent features of stag used with sufficient powerBUCKTEETHDDown 6: Tense is wrong in speechTAUTDDown 7: Concrete refuge put up to support partnerMATERIALDDown 8: Details of webinar rat establishedNARRATESDDown 13: Stuck-up favourite son, more remote, losing right to be family memberSTEPFATHERDDown 15: Signing up – arranged rent money, pound for year!ENROLMENTDDown 16: Recollected happiest commemorationsEPITAPHSDDown 17: In the mood, already hooked up in conversationPREPAREDDDown 19: Tips from Sainsbury's to include support for ice cream and cakesSCONESDDown 20: Upstanding prime minister regularly spat outASLEEPDDown 23: Open to entertaining vicar in retirementOVERTDDown 24: Superheroine finally appearing in Madame Web featureMEME