Negotiate most of recent diet changes

The answer to “Negotiate most of recent diet changes” in the The Telegraph Cryptic crossword is INTERCEDE — a 9-letter word. It most recently appeared in the The Telegraph Cryptic crossword on September 29, 2026, a Tuesday puzzle, at 7-Down. Below you'll find why that fill fits, every other answer we've recorded for this clue, and links into the puzzle it came from.

“Negotiate most of recent diet changes” answer

INTERCEDE (9 letters)

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What does INTERCEDE mean?

Reading the plain dictionary sense of INTERCEDE is often the fastest way to see why it answers this clue.

When else has “Negotiate most of recent diet changes” appeared?

The Telegraph Cryptic reuses clues across dates, sometimes with a different answer depending on the grid. Here's where this exact clue has shown up, and what the answer was each time — handy when you're checking whether today's fill is the only one.

September 29, 2026 (most recent) → INTERCEDE. We haven't indexed another appearance of this exact clue yet.

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