Today's The Telegraph Toughie Puzzle Crossword Clues & Answers

Clues & Answers For The Telegraph Toughie

(May 15, 2026)

ACROSS

• 4. Time abandons opposition to US attention-seeker - Crossword Clue
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• 8. Divert punchy type, sounding out Hornsey area? - Crossword Clue
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• 9. With change of heart, it's possible for cunning to function in Opposition - Crossword Clue
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• 10. Carrier of hot liquid has overall covering bottom - Crossword Clue
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• 11. To which extent Curie elongated cells - Crossword Clue
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• 12. Remove rights to run escort agency - Crossword Clue
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• 14. Looks over hatches again - Crossword Clue
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• 15. Support particularly like a chocolate teapot? - Crossword Clue
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• 17. Former authority assumed regressively by "Ma'am"/"Sir" as teachers - Crossword Clue
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• 21. A bit of a buffet sadly knocked over poet on cycle - Crossword Clue
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• 23. Elected bores given the go-ahead behaved swinishly - Crossword Clue
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• 25. Tuber fled Docklands stops - Crossword Clue
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• 26. What's left spaces on back for newly filled in scoreline? - Crossword Clue
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• 28. Ignoring the odds, persist with this person's case - Crossword Clue
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• 29. Where sweet girl awaits husband in Calais, with all encompassing love - Crossword Clue
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• 30. Out of necessity, daughter called before wedding - Crossword Clue
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DOWN

• 1. Put wise uncle with Independent cryptic - Crossword Clue
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• 2. Fine tyres, as he periodically offers - Crossword Clue
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• 3. Escalating argument about low roof, taking away nothing from brewery facilities - Crossword Clue
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• 4. Old serfs, all bar leader on the line - Crossword Clue
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• 5. Gum spasm beyond old lady's control? - Crossword Clue
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• 6. No way sorry in business after completely hiking figure - Crossword Clue
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• 7. A stack o' Edinburgh's premier bakes - Crossword Clue
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• 12. Rubber bullet's taken out sandwich ingredients! - Crossword Clue
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• 13. For whom retail therapy is no therapy - Crossword Clue
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• 16. Columbo's employer perhaps beribboned hastily - Crossword Clue
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• 18. Mark takes Charlie for a spin in recce vehicle - Crossword Clue
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• 19. CEO cages a cuckoo - Crossword Clue
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• 20. Rings of colour winding poetically over a ploughed lea - Crossword Clue
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• 22. Conductors briefly try to earn money playing music pieces - Crossword Clue
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• 24. Overwhelm mischief-maker carrying revolver butt-first? - Crossword Clue
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• 27. Prude revelling in Grundyism, primarily - Crossword Clue
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