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Evening Standard Crossword August 14 2025 Answers

Thursday puzzle · 132 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 132 clues from the Evening Standard Crossword for August 14 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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ClueLetters#Answer
Get to suit64 AcrossReveal answer → Collection54 AcrossReveal answer → Scattered, scanty64 AcrossReveal answer → Edible snail87 AcrossReveal answer → In optics, a bit of looker?87 AcrossReveal answer → Skulked67 AcrossReveal answer → Engraves68 AcrossReveal answer → Get together against backing a dog and a horse68 AcrossReveal answer → Taxi39 AcrossReveal answer → Frog noise510 AcrossReveal answer → Nominally you'll find a clue in central Dakar510 AcrossReveal answer → Epoch310 AcrossReveal answer → Sword512 AcrossReveal answer → Insects413 AcrossReveal answer → Yield413 AcrossReveal answer → Joe, by the way, is the tenor413 AcrossReveal answer → The high cost of terrorism?414 AcrossReveal answer → Nobleman414 AcrossReveal answer → Fronded plant415 AcrossReveal answer → Gather515 AcrossReveal answer → Writers of a footnote about certain points415 AcrossReveal answer → Anger, annoy316 AcrossReveal answer → Not all crab apples can be eaten316 AcrossReveal answer → Crude617 AcrossReveal answer → End part417 AcrossReveal answer → Kick in the rear?417 AcrossReveal answer → Biblical name in every thesaurus419 AcrossReveal answer → Unguis419 AcrossReveal answer → Aperture419 AcrossReveal answer → Present520 AcrossReveal answer → Grand old guard giving timely information921 AcrossReveal answer → Christmas show921 AcrossReveal answer → Energy322 AcrossReveal answer → Planet423 AcrossReveal answer → Nevertheless one may be thought really to exist423 AcrossReveal answer → Vessel for flowers424 AcrossReveal answer → She's back, more than half asleep424 AcrossReveal answer → Ebbed724 AcrossReveal answer → Karate expert326 AcrossReveal answer → Satisfied with a methodical start326 AcrossReveal answer → Prevalent depression in the countryside?427 AcrossReveal answer → Total327 AcrossReveal answer → Sharpen427 AcrossReveal answer → Delete528 AcrossReveal answer → Pressure on a youth with nothing to hide?429 AcrossReveal answer → Midday429 AcrossReveal answer → Prima-donna431 AcrossReveal answer → Dispose of, part used, for lb50432 AcrossReveal answer → Plant ovule432 AcrossReveal answer → Proverb533 AcrossReveal answer → Border on being edgy533 AcrossReveal answer → Rue633 AcrossReveal answer → Charm a chap with temptation634 AcrossReveal answer → Surgical stitch634 AcrossReveal answer → A case of 'hit and run' involving children835 AcrossReveal answer → An explosive835 AcrossReveal answer → View535 AcrossReveal answer → Against636 AcrossReveal answer → Nowadays, an opening is always coming636 AcrossReveal answer → Timber437 AcrossReveal answer → Share538 AcrossReveal answer → Faucet339 AcrossReveal answer → Stray341 AcrossReveal answer → Area642 AcrossReveal answer → Vigilant543 AcrossReveal answer →

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Food they bake badly at Birkenhead?51 DownReveal answer → Fight with swords51 DownReveal answer → Evoke61 DownReveal answer → Material may be mined52 DownReveal answer → Thespian52 DownReveal answer → Rut62 DownReveal answer → Insect33 DownReveal answer → Long journey43 DownReveal answer → Make a little love with a light touch43 DownReveal answer → Singer44 DownReveal answer → Guide54 DownReveal answer → Start to live with spirit54 DownReveal answer → Embarrass55 DownReveal answer → Curves45 DownReveal answer → Is incapable of hypocrisy?45 DownReveal answer → Negligent86 DownReveal answer → The terrorists twice gave mum a turn66 DownReveal answer → Israeli monetary unit66 DownReveal answer → Haul48 DownReveal answer → Sport69 DownReveal answer → Liquid maybe, but a mug will take only half69 DownReveal answer → Astonishment911 DownReveal answer → Owl fluttering near the ground311 DownReveal answer → Torn cloth311 DownReveal answer → Good man's boat wrecked around Beachy Head512 DownReveal answer → Communion table512 DownReveal answer → On the cards as good advice?713 DownReveal answer → Dear713 DownReveal answer → Cat-noise414 DownReveal answer → A case of seediness?315 DownReveal answer → Seizure315 DownReveal answer → Contend316 DownReveal answer → Parched416 DownReveal answer → Utterance of a bachelor on fishing lunch316 DownReveal answer → Solution618 DownReveal answer → Dregs418 DownReveal answer → Is he a Romeo to a girl?618 DownReveal answer → Climb on a fish's back, perhaps?520 DownReveal answer → Improve520 DownReveal answer → Achieve one's target at last321 DownReveal answer → Customary821 DownReveal answer → Cooking vessel321 DownReveal answer → The dealer's drink?322 DownReveal answer → Floor covering322 DownReveal answer → Nobleman423 DownReveal answer → Grown-up623 DownReveal answer → Held to rhyme with 'howled'623 DownReveal answer → With wages cut, will he joke?325 DownReveal answer → Corgi, say325 DownReveal answer → Remedy425 DownReveal answer → Sketched426 DownReveal answer → Warning of real disaster starting tomorrow?528 DownReveal answer → Takes notice of528 DownReveal answer → Nuclear629 DownReveal answer → Finish630 DownReveal answer → Desert's fertile spot530 DownReveal answer → Tell someone the arrangement?530 DownReveal answer → Possibly needs to be thick531 DownReveal answer → At no time531 DownReveal answer → Flower532 DownReveal answer → Lather432 DownReveal answer → Satisfied it's safe432 DownReveal answer → Do such tomatoes taste like grapes?433 DownReveal answer → First man433 DownReveal answer → Equipment434 DownReveal answer → Wagon436 DownReveal answer → Fix340 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the Evening Standard crossword published on Thursday, August 14, 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.