Today's The Telegraph Cryptic Puzzle Crossword Clues & Answers

Clues & Answers For The Telegraph Cryptic

(September 21, 2026)

ACROSS

• 1. A little helper for mum's do - Crossword Clue
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• 5. Opposition to change in slum did badly - Crossword Clue
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• 9. Upset, I panic shy doctor - Crossword Clue
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• 10. Munch nuts, shelled and whole - Crossword Clue
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• 11. Scottish singer lout regularly put on repeat - Crossword Clue
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• 12. Wild hen gets on English monument - Crossword Clue
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• 13. Amusing guards run, dribbling - Crossword Clue
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• 16. Independent politician's a troublemaker - Crossword Clue
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• 19. 1950s youth finally cut the mustard - Crossword Clue
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• 20. Prepare to fight Conservative from France - Crossword Clue
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• 22. Shun a bleak moving firm - Crossword Clue
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• 25. Protest comedy from the right lacks boundaries - Crossword Clue
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• 27. Fleshy fruit picked, primarily - Crossword Clue
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• 28. Perhaps batsman caught, less stable after losing international - Crossword Clue
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• 29. Vacuous thinker finished and went viral on social media - Crossword Clue
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• 30. Gosh, punched by South African capital's big cheese - Crossword Clue
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DOWN

• 1. Live in ramshackle Aleppo hut, not hotel - Crossword Clue
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• 2. Organisation that exists to make money? - Crossword Clue
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• 3. God's love leads to divine inspiration normally - Crossword Clue
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• 4. Keeps Republican away from principal tutors - Crossword Clue
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• 5. Russian leader left Benin, having ousted leader - Crossword Clue
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• 6. More resolute bank propping up cash - Crossword Clue
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• 7. Ancient civilisation's food container missing lid - Crossword Clue
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• 8. Mum's hesitant expression, holding up flying insect - Crossword Clue
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• 14. Held to ransom, fool slept - Crossword Clue
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• 15. Demanding thin porridge and fish - Crossword Clue
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• 17. Defended professional court in tweed, having ditched wife - Crossword Clue
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• 18. Certainly astray, but with only one fine - Crossword Clue
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• 21. Model's young dog and cat? - Crossword Clue
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• 23. Impudent behaviour is beginning, according to reports - Crossword Clue
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• 24. Bowed and served brilliantly, welcoming king - Crossword Clue
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• 26. Regularly cook great edible plant - Crossword Clue
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