Telegraph Toughie Answers - Friday, 31st January 2025 There are 16 across clues and 16 down clues for the Telegraph Toughie crossword on Friday, 31st January 2025. View the answers below.. Also try..All Telegraph Toughie AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Stripping cover, bang on about nurseANGELAAcross 4: Introduced new series in self-deprecationPREFACEDAAcross 10: Gradually weaken staff in centreCORRODEAAcross 11: Birds flying to cavesAVOCETSAAcross 12: Punt worker, say, back in CambridgeANTEAAcross 13: Stone Age spans origins of ancient toolsAGATEAAcross 14: Greedy biblical king banishing first daughterAVIDAAcross 17: Noble quietly retracted warning caught by heavenly maidenPEER OF THE REALMAAcross 19: Mostly Vatican restored damaged ceramics and textiles?DECORATIVE ARTSAAcross 22: Papers backing very American, look-at-me sort?DIVAAAcross 23: Shrewd copper irritated fencesACUTEAAcross 24: Intermittently picked out Neptunian volcanoETNAAAcross 27: Couple starts to talk with others a littleTWOSOMEAAcross 28: Foreign agents arresting informer drilled by old republicCROATIAAAcross 29: Was excited to an extent about France's seafoodROSEFISHAAcross 30: Big pair of hands carrying a case of GrenacheLARGEDDown 1: Sparks essentially fixes bright lightsARC-LAMPSDDown 2: Fitted in Jag, a rotten chokeGAROTTEDDown 3: Becket, say, cut off old boresLOOPDDown 5: Issue warning edict or a threat will developREAD THE RIOT ACTDDown 6: Maybe Paisley's sound – fine then depressedFLOWDDown 7: Herb in cold and hot chopped liverCHERVILDDown 8: Turf rolled over bare plots treated with somethingDOSEDDDown 9: Those aiming to cut masses in, say, Kensington church inspired by blues legendWEIGHT-WATCHERSDDown 15: Attempt to plug record upset novelist and playwrightGOGOLDDown 16: Name sources in criminal enterprise long before hint of enquiry breaksCELEBDDown 18: Omitting introduction, author into debauchery pens better adventureESCAPADEDDown 20: Green half of neighbourhood with uncrowned talentENVIOUSDDown 21: Turner picked up in its original condition?ROTATORDDown 22: Discourage one of 9, perhaps, but not 1DETERDDown 25: Canine left wearing half-hearted canine expression?WOLFDDown 26: Water sport with its final coming up ... here?POOL