Today's The Telegraph Cryptic Puzzle Crossword Clues & Answers

Clues & Answers For The Telegraph Cryptic

(January 21, 2026)

ACROSS

• 1. Townie and I will travel across the country - Crossword Clue
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• 6. Animal occasionally calm in pound - Crossword Clue
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• 9. Fixed name tag on doctor - Crossword Clue
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• 10. Dash before try? Match official ... - Crossword Clue
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• 12. ... rose and left ... - Crossword Clue
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• 13. ... game, seconds left - Crossword Clue
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• 15. I must dodge pine cane deployed as punishment - Crossword Clue
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• 16. Play guitar following men around stage - Crossword Clue
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• 18. Free this bird trapped by small bricks - Crossword Clue
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• 20. McCartney perhaps needing help with book - Crossword Clue
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• 21. Party entertained by Cantona, ebulliently making a comeback - Crossword Clue
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• 23. Extremely tense learner driver cross in Shropshire town - Crossword Clue
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• 25. Drunk in bulk, ale is not nice - Crossword Clue
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• 26. Middle son escaping from offender - Crossword Clue
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• 27. Noisy commotion before end of college feast - Crossword Clue
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• 28. 13 Across trees chopped up? These people object - Crossword Clue
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DOWN

• 1. Anorak 50 per cent of flipping children discarded - Crossword Clue
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• 2. Closely integrated firm, outfit with knight on board - Crossword Clue
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• 3. School ties securing a post? - Crossword Clue
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• 4. The compilers will turn up, putting away litres in reception - Crossword Clue
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• 5. Ruined amusing entrance for Spooner - Crossword Clue
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• 7. Sound of ball stuck under car - Crossword Clue
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• 8. Fete a mob spoils, beginning to throw old fruit - Crossword Clue
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• 11. Book fair thus succeeded, supported by politicians - Crossword Clue
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• 14. Transported piano bagged by auction before spring - Crossword Clue
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• 17. Cannier broadcast includes publicity about religious ceremony - Crossword Clue
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• 19. Bet crook, mostly corrupt, will get time in autumn - Crossword Clue
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• 20. Getting on in first class, most impudent - Crossword Clue
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• 22. Maybe singer Lily means now and then to go after everybody! - Crossword Clue
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• 24. Ordnance farmstead stocks - Crossword Clue
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