Evening Standard Crossword August 15 2025 Answers

Friday puzzle · 134 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 134 clues from the Evening Standard Crossword for August 15 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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Edit61 AcrossReveal answer → Hired65 AcrossReveal answer → Unfastened59 AcrossReveal answer → Drying while you're phoning99 AcrossReveal answer → Predacious99 AcrossReveal answer → Invoiced610 AcrossReveal answer → Better than, when it comes to barbering?910 AcrossReveal answer → Humble910 AcrossReveal answer → Hand-gun611 AcrossReveal answer → Principle512 AcrossReveal answer → Delighted to detect, you say412 AcrossReveal answer → Precipitation412 AcrossReveal answer → Contusion613 AcrossReveal answer → Said it's a surface charm613 AcrossReveal answer → Letter714 AcrossReveal answer → After half an hour I send food round to feed714 AcrossReveal answer → Ran off414 AcrossReveal answer → Disadvantages915 AcrossReveal answer → A miniature plane, perhaps915 AcrossReveal answer → Lair317 AcrossReveal answer → Unsafe vehicle917 AcrossReveal answer → Sets straight on the subject of clothes917 AcrossReveal answer → Furniture item718 AcrossReveal answer → Yield418 AcrossReveal answer → On the day, dead annoyed about its being full of holes718 AcrossReveal answer → Golfer's assistant619 AcrossReveal answer → An animal and one dicky bird!619 AcrossReveal answer → Foul520 AcrossReveal answer → Resonation420 AcrossReveal answer → Decline to become enamoured of420 AcrossReveal answer → Managed522 AcrossReveal answer → Giving a guarantee, which is auspicious923 AcrossReveal answer → Meaner723 AcrossReveal answer → Forced out923 AcrossReveal answer → Loose524 AcrossReveal answer → Soon925 AcrossReveal answer → Set off and left after the other three, we're told925 AcrossReveal answer → Moor by the river bank426 AcrossReveal answer → Rot526 AcrossReveal answer → Outlet426 AcrossReveal answer → Minor earthquake627 AcrossReveal answer → Even though one has the odd bleat about it627 AcrossReveal answer → Friend429 AcrossReveal answer → Bloom729 AcrossReveal answer → Is he grumbling about the old-fashioned transport?729 AcrossReveal answer → Couch330 AcrossReveal answer → With set ideas, going off to do some bird-watching?932 AcrossReveal answer → Toady932 AcrossReveal answer → Challenge432 AcrossReveal answer → Enciphered533 AcrossReveal answer → Is clearly irritated by and cancels934 AcrossReveal answer → Contrived934 AcrossReveal answer → An advertisement from "15"?735 AcrossReveal answer → Venerate635 AcrossReveal answer → Fruit735 AcrossReveal answer → About a quarter recover? How surprising!636 AcrossReveal answer → Involving words636 AcrossReveal answer → Human636 AcrossReveal answer → Fool who will, given time, get sense437 AcrossReveal answer → Broom537 AcrossReveal answer → Primates437 AcrossReveal answer → Joyously unrestrained938 AcrossReveal answer → An ally in one form or another938 AcrossReveal answer → Considered638 AcrossReveal answer → Type of painting939 AcrossReveal answer → Approached639 AcrossReveal answer → Pay my debts? Lay off!939 AcrossReveal answer →

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Improved81 DownReveal answer → Snub61 DownReveal answer → Deem to be deliberate81 DownReveal answer → Food shop122 DownReveal answer → What happened when the flag was hoisted showing a flower?122 DownReveal answer → Fabric62 DownReveal answer → Reckless young driver83 DownReveal answer → Smiled when the spider got me agitated83 DownReveal answer → Fat43 DownReveal answer → Finished54 DownReveal answer → Song words64 DownReveal answer → The girl's been stood up again and that's tough64 DownReveal answer → Mature55 DownReveal answer → Protected85 DownReveal answer → Speak ill of as "a ruddy awful paper"85 DownReveal answer → Revise46 DownReveal answer → Essential106 DownReveal answer → Prepared the bed for sleeping in - didn't like it106 DownReveal answer → Tie up67 DownReveal answer → Deceitful craftiness77 DownReveal answer → Downcast and carrying an instrument, said hello77 DownReveal answer → The old man, like myself, had so healthy an upbringing108 DownReveal answer → Commanding108 DownReveal answer → Dug68 DownReveal answer → Misses one most, being crazy about511 DownReveal answer → Communion table511 DownReveal answer → Snuggled713 DownReveal answer → Lawful515 DownReveal answer → Chess piece616 DownReveal answer → Brief one on how to be a substitute?616 DownReveal answer → Drab516 DownReveal answer → Troubled518 DownReveal answer → Food fish319 DownReveal answer → The girl who took your coat?319 DownReveal answer → Prevent519 DownReveal answer → Age321 DownReveal answer → Disastrous1221 DownReveal answer → Spring water1221 DownReveal answer → Attempt to get the keys to the garrison622 DownReveal answer → Pious622 DownReveal answer → Nourished322 DownReveal answer → Like the shorts dirty from playing football?1023 DownReveal answer → Laid waste1023 DownReveal answer → The salesman's favourite words? I believe you!1024 DownReveal answer → Gigantic1024 DownReveal answer → Swam624 DownReveal answer → Look625 DownReveal answer → It is to the point, showing intelligence325 DownReveal answer → Standard325 DownReveal answer → Guard627 DownReveal answer → Shouted628 DownReveal answer → Spur on828 DownReveal answer → Authorises at last the transplantation of the roses828 DownReveal answer → Boy's name829 DownReveal answer → Left inside so germs spread, which is stupid829 DownReveal answer → Thick syrup830 DownReveal answer → Drilled530 DownReveal answer → As favours, prepared to keep in store, packaged830 DownReveal answer → "A terrible slob," I add, "hard to get rid of"731 DownReveal answer → Group of organisms731 DownReveal answer → Devil531 DownReveal answer → A drink before the play533 DownReveal answer → Greek island533 DownReveal answer → Die433 DownReveal answer → Agitation634 DownReveal answer → Supports the defensive efforts634 DownReveal answer → Cupola434 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the Evening Standard crossword published on Friday, August 15, 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.