Today's The Telegraph Cryptic Puzzle Crossword Clues & Answers

Clues & Answers For The Telegraph Cryptic

(January 19, 2026)

ACROSS

• 1. Sweet, affectionate social worker - Crossword Clue
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• 5. Location of mausoleum in shadowy outline - Crossword Clue
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• 9. Initially auditor rants about workplace records - Crossword Clue
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• 10. Sell off university involved in lawsuit - Crossword Clue
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• 11. Strangely, I chose and use cold storage areas - Crossword Clue
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• 12. Dish from Carrera, Italy - Crossword Clue
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• 13. Old king lacking energy to eat a lot - Crossword Clue
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• 15. Design elegant car, excluding a certain shape - Crossword Clue
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• 17. Women's hospital is, according to journalist, secretly plotted - Crossword Clue
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• 19. French city by river is more pleasant - Crossword Clue
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• 22. In part, space-age robot is enthusiastic - Crossword Clue
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• 23. Hinder fellow's cleaner - Crossword Clue
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• 25. Portraying one married and getting on - Crossword Clue
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• 26. Unfriendly MC at first ignores late entrants - Crossword Clue
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• 27. Blokes? They spout on the radio! - Crossword Clue
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• 28. Legal licence covers current case - Crossword Clue
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DOWN

• 1. Red and pink bird loses tail - Crossword Clue
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• 2. Foreign letter transparent about fusion and fission - Crossword Clue
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• 3. Miami governor embraces friend from Spain - Crossword Clue
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• 4. Manager of funds more confident after rate fixed - Crossword Clue
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• 5. Drags sliding boxes in the auditorium - Crossword Clue
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• 6. Verify mixture of arsenic encasing tantalum - Crossword Clue
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• 7. Showering after removing cap in practice - Crossword Clue
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• 8. Staff go out for instruction - Crossword Clue
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• 14. Thorough awareness of disorderly peers' exit - Crossword Clue
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• 16. Pastiched silly training programme - Crossword Clue
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• 17. Little noise accompanies good gardener's task - Crossword Clue
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• 18. Trendy fireplace for thankless type - Crossword Clue
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• 20. Strip screw with tool in narrow space - Crossword Clue
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• 21. Go back on deal - Crossword Clue
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• 23. Artist is wise in retrospect after date - Crossword Clue
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• 24. Amid failures, I take opportunity to do exam again - Crossword Clue
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