The Telegraph – CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 30,504 – Jan 8, 2024, Clues and Answers
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| A few wish that will never happen | SOMEHOPE |
| American aboard a new train, one coming from Vienna? | AUSTRIAN |
| Aplenty, popular digging tools | INSPADES |
| Beat female record | FLOG |
| Cave coming up full of rats and the like — do not fret | NEVERMIND |
| Crowd largely relaxed where reporters gather? | PRESSGALLERY |
| Despicable blokes initially tenanted bottom floor? | BASEMENT |
| Film amazing Thailand win against Italy | WITHNAILANDI |
| From bad to worse — Bertie, perhaps | WOOSTER |
| Holding cracked tureen | TENURE |
| Hotel guest let team inside | RESIDENT |
| Idle type finished around mid-afternoon | DRONE |
| Important stuff | MATERIAL |
| Improvise showing ingenuity bottling blended gin | WINGIT |
| Leader’s spoken about current, after current seen rising | EDITORIAL |
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| Love, as it happens, oily fruit | OLIVE |
| Note that may be read both ways | MINIM |
| Object of worship in orchidology | IDOL |
| Petty quarrel with a New York jeweller | TIFFANY |
| Pick up summary of events? | RESUME |
| Pigeon in middle of arboretum | HOMER |
| Push the boat out taking in a show | REVEAL |
| Short story about bird’s claw | TALON |
| Some curds, or tofu in a way | SORTOF |
| Staunch supporter rightly depressed | TRUEBLUE |
| Talk inconsequentially with religious teacher before start of term | RABBIT |
| Tread nervously in business | TRADE |
| Trouble between a mother and son over spiritual leader | DALAILAMA |
| Unaware of plain surrounding lake and island | OBLIVIOUS |
| What cover may be doing for novelist | FIELDING |