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Evening Standard Crossword August 12 2025 Answers

Tuesday puzzle · 122 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 122 clues from the Evening Standard Crossword for August 12 2025. Stuck on one? Click the clue to reveal its verified answer, plus every other answer that clue has had across every publisher in our database.

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Faith51 AcrossReveal answer → Pale61 AcrossReveal answer → Accept no authority from a fatheaded oaf51 AcrossReveal answer → Firm65 AcrossReveal answer → A slim assortment of postal packages56 AcrossReveal answer → Prickly plants56 AcrossReveal answer → Warship88 AcrossReveal answer → Inclined to cry79 AcrossReveal answer → Righteous49 AcrossReveal answer → In the wild, they don't contrive to save gas79 AcrossReveal answer → Marry310 AcrossReveal answer → Gigantic source of taint510 AcrossReveal answer → Decorate510 AcrossReveal answer → The ones belonging to Thomas East511 AcrossReveal answer → Pub game511 AcrossReveal answer → Short and interesting, at heart512 AcrossReveal answer → Curtain512 AcrossReveal answer → Dispatches512 AcrossReveal answer → Crocus713 AcrossReveal answer → Given something to burn713 AcrossReveal answer → Opposite of wet315 AcrossReveal answer → Fixed315 AcrossReveal answer → This is breathlessly assertive!315 AcrossReveal answer → Fever417 AcrossReveal answer → Part of a church in a state of collapse417 AcrossReveal answer → Self317 AcrossReveal answer → There's a national one for these people618 AcrossReveal answer → Astern318 AcrossReveal answer → Confuse618 AcrossReveal answer → Communicate by taxi with the French519 AcrossReveal answer → Assistants519 AcrossReveal answer → Fellow319 AcrossReveal answer → Ludicrous620 AcrossReveal answer → As emperor, he had his own column620 AcrossReveal answer → Sketch520 AcrossReveal answer → Wonder321 AcrossReveal answer → Celebrity422 AcrossReveal answer → Droop322 AcrossReveal answer → Price of sheet music, ostensibly422 AcrossReveal answer → Tree323 AcrossReveal answer → Perhaps a lofty Haydn piece?324 AcrossReveal answer → Regret324 AcrossReveal answer → 24 hours324 AcrossReveal answer → Famously lacking ability?725 AcrossReveal answer → Part of speech725 AcrossReveal answer → Go in526 AcrossReveal answer → Strong drink526 AcrossReveal answer → Lukewarm526 AcrossReveal answer → We go in to the left (by rail, maybe?)527 AcrossReveal answer → Once more527 AcrossReveal answer → Nozzle528 AcrossReveal answer → Occasions of upsetting '16 Down'528 AcrossReveal answer → Where, afresh, one went off to be a proprietor729 AcrossReveal answer → Afternoon show729 AcrossReveal answer → Mine329 AcrossReveal answer → Females dim as can be?530 AcrossReveal answer → Cant530 AcrossReveal answer → Banal531 AcrossReveal answer → Looked to perambulate the dog about half a mile?531 AcrossReveal answer → Agitate433 AcrossReveal answer → Break834 AcrossReveal answer → Stupor635 AcrossReveal answer → Character636 AcrossReveal answer →

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A provocation62 DownReveal answer → Sick of being kept in reserve?62 DownReveal answer → Dwelling52 DownReveal answer → Valid way for us to get fit63 DownReveal answer → Conflict63 DownReveal answer → Exist43 DownReveal answer → Dissuade54 DownReveal answer → Number34 DownReveal answer → Instant healthy-looking colour?34 DownReveal answer → Slumber55 DownReveal answer → Verdant55 DownReveal answer → Singular thing to shoot on the river!55 DownReveal answer → Border46 DownReveal answer → Somehow name the gas76 DownReveal answer → Hugs76 DownReveal answer → Motored57 DownReveal answer → Unfortunately47 DownReveal answer → Like a backward, pale appearance?47 DownReveal answer → Teachers68 DownReveal answer → Would she fib about a fathead?68 DownReveal answer → Broader510 DownReveal answer → Thick511 DownReveal answer → Growing need to change pace at one point512 DownReveal answer → Evade512 DownReveal answer → Compact, firm512 DownReveal answer → Divided513 DownReveal answer → Cold meal513 DownReveal answer → A woman with both hope and charity?513 DownReveal answer → Consumer514 DownReveal answer → Pernickety514 DownReveal answer → Piece of writing for the Standard, say?514 DownReveal answer → Beat both possibly outright515 DownReveal answer → Impress515 DownReveal answer → Caused by515 DownReveal answer → Handle516 DownReveal answer → To pine516 DownReveal answer → Strike as being old-fashioned?516 DownReveal answer → Give everything not to be decapitated!518 DownReveal answer → Facial hair518 DownReveal answer → Strong places to chuck a chap into719 DownReveal answer → Arms depot719 DownReveal answer → She's Spanish, but there's a Roman version621 DownReveal answer → Bracelet type621 DownReveal answer → Preparing to rob of cover?622 DownReveal answer → Hidden gunman622 DownReveal answer → You may well have a hand in it, albeit briefly623 DownReveal answer → Summer month623 DownReveal answer → Not so much heady as potty!525 DownReveal answer → Speak525 DownReveal answer → Fairy type525 DownReveal answer → Prison sentence426 DownReveal answer → Post a letter to finish with426 DownReveal answer → Din527 DownReveal answer → Figure of a magnificent woman328 DownReveal answer → Suite328 DownReveal answer → Praise528 DownReveal answer → Silly530 DownReveal answer → Press431 DownReveal answer → Courage432 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the Evening Standard crossword published on Tuesday, August 12, 2025. Answers are checked against the completed grid before publishing and live on each clue's own page, so you only see the solutions you ask for. If a clue looks familiar, open it — the same wording often runs in other puzzles with a different answer, and the clue page shows every version we have on record.