Telegraph Toughie Answers - Wednesday, 8th January 2025 There are 16 across clues and 14 down clues for the Telegraph Toughie crossword on Wednesday, 8th January 2025. View the answers below.. Also try..All Telegraph Toughie AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Senior detective policeman, old copper, MPS's last dinosaurDIPLODOCUSAAcross 6: One not out to provide cover for injurySCABAAcross 9: Execute collaborator Connery reportedACCOMPLISHAAcross 10: Zeus's missus glimpsed in the rawHERAAAcross 12: Repellent stuff that's left after the grapes have been trampled?MARCAAcross 13: Wanton damage after museum starts to let in some modsVANDALISMAAcross 15: Game dad suppressing alarmed cry, then alarming cryPEEKABOOAAcross 16: Fine shellfish from the old daysFORMERAAcross 18: Passion seen in the outlines of Lippi, Botticelli and DonatelloLIBIDOAAcross 20: Introduction paper put in lead article in Paris MatchPREAMBLEAAcross 23: Retired coach finding work in the Mediterranean as a scuba instructor?SUBMERGEDAAcross 24: A violent blow – an element of Morse?DASHAAcross 26: Uplifting, lovely on the outside? Not really ...UGLYAAcross 27: Some Jamaicans here turn to bogeyman?MONTEGO BAYAAcross 28: Italian hothead occasionally lent an earETNAAAcross 29: Review reports etc for broadcastingRETROSPECTDDown 1: Compiler shuns lower status clergymanDEANDDown 2: Bundle of several wolves held in captivity freedPACKAGEDDown 3: Commend a fine, troubled account of a time of depressionOF MICE AND MENDDown 4: Disrobed peer furious over new forgetfulnessOBLIVIONDDown 5: Beginning to swim in water like a bearURSINEDDown 7: Composed music featuring A, E and CsCAESIUMDDown 8: When prices drop during Feb, earmark ETFsBEAR MARKETDDown 11: Loudly implores Sherlock writer somewhat briefly to pop in for breakfastBACON AND EGGSDDown 14: IT firm's outstanding upgrade initially included a dish thrown in for freeAPPLE SAUCEDDown 17: Discontented Courier newspaper boss who's owed moneyCREDITORDDown 19: Taking day off, Bob Dylan goes round the old cityBABYLONDDown 21: One's life really is a hive of activity!BUSY BEEDDown 22: Disregard Italian chap, no saintIGNOREDDown 25: Potentially suspect structure – Carnaby Street evacuatedCYST