Telegraph Toughie Answers - Wednesday, 21st August 2024

There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the Telegraph Toughie crossword on Wednesday, 21st August 2024. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	A bird zonked, cuckoo falls over massive embankment	ASWAN HIGH DAM
AAcross 9:	Short feather, purple
AAcross 10:	Colour driving people?
AAcross 12:	Take as a joke by the sound of it
AAcross 13:	Throw savage into drink
AAcross 15:	Giant of American literature?
AAcross 16:	Deep hole, better
AAcross 18:	Settlement secured in joint ownership
AAcross 20:	Film while in vehicle by foreign canal
AAcross 23:	Tax banks or free the place of demons
AAcross 24:	Light, soldier returning before dark
AAcross 26:	Short-sighted forward tackling referee to begin with
AAcross 27:	Spot marker on simian head
AAcross 28:	A shade repeated in chocolate-box?	PRETTY-PRETTY
DDown 2:	Partially melted soup ingredient fine in gel	SEMI-SOFT
DDown 3:	Using a bow, one shooting arrows misses her ring
DDown 4:	Perhaps one controlling Arab state seeing rare shower further north	HORSE-WOMAN
DDown 5:	Jar that's not closed is free
DDown 6:	Turn left into empty drive, and slowly drop
DDown 7:	Something perhaps still raw, Neil trembles in embrace of mother	MINERAL WATER
DDown 8:	Hit hard, an advertiser?
DDown 11:	Elusive person is bound to work around this, we suspect	WILL-O-THE-WISP
DDown 14:	Worker with soot scrubbed off? Whitewash!	CLEAN SWEEP
DDown 17:	Draw attention to philippic, obviously bad
DDown 19:	Croquet target found in little hurrah!
DDown 21:	Arrested? I was the president of North America!
DDown 22:	Secret sect under rock, uncovered
DDown 25:	Sore troubling your eye, primarily?