Evening Standard Crossword August 16 2025 Answers

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Below are all 131 clues from the Evening Standard Crossword for August 16 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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Card game53 AcrossReveal answer → Irrigate53 AcrossReveal answer → Good victuals can be provided thus fully53 AcrossReveal answer → Assume it's a leg-pull58 AcrossReveal answer → Extra payment58 AcrossReveal answer → Astonished69 AcrossReveal answer → Unit of weight510 AcrossReveal answer → Season610 AcrossReveal answer → A bad thing to call an elephant510 AcrossReveal answer → Pantomime cat?311 AcrossReveal answer → In favour of311 AcrossReveal answer → Drugged511 AcrossReveal answer → Not a place to be allowed out512 AcrossReveal answer → Frank412 AcrossReveal answer → Hut512 AcrossReveal answer → Like the unfamiliar ways in prison713 AcrossReveal answer → Seaman713 AcrossReveal answer → Formerly415 AcrossReveal answer → Post off515 AcrossReveal answer → Bent on milking the applause?515 AcrossReveal answer → Lived717 AcrossReveal answer → Rowing blade318 AcrossReveal answer → Has she vowed not to take orders?318 AcrossReveal answer → Next to619 AcrossReveal answer → Get four wrong again and there'll be a big fuss619 AcrossReveal answer → Deity320 AcrossReveal answer → Hernia721 AcrossReveal answer → Figure521 AcrossReveal answer → Its eight members are legless!721 AcrossReveal answer → A bit hard to find in the food line?422 AcrossReveal answer → Regrets422 AcrossReveal answer → Star maker in old Russia423 AcrossReveal answer → Clenched hand423 AcrossReveal answer → Shape423 AcrossReveal answer → To me, a certain degree724 AcrossReveal answer → Ill-fated ship724 AcrossReveal answer → Haze425 AcrossReveal answer → Surrounded by soldiers, a deserter gets free!626 AcrossReveal answer → Insight626 AcrossReveal answer → Keen526 AcrossReveal answer → Deed328 AcrossReveal answer → Racket329 AcrossReveal answer → To make provision, one needs foresight329 AcrossReveal answer → Varied730 AcrossReveal answer → Could it give guidance in solving arson?531 AcrossReveal answer → Of the nose531 AcrossReveal answer → Unenthusiastic about the centrepiece being maybe remote732 AcrossReveal answer → Exact copy732 AcrossReveal answer → Cease433 AcrossReveal answer → Not dirty534 AcrossReveal answer → Artist who took the part of Lucie Manette534 AcrossReveal answer → Apt to be on the end of a pipe335 AcrossReveal answer → Facts435 AcrossReveal answer → Land measure335 AcrossReveal answer → Turning tool536 AcrossReveal answer → Jam536 AcrossReveal answer → Possibly grips a little holly536 AcrossReveal answer → Move furtively537 AcrossReveal answer → Musical times537 AcrossReveal answer → Address the public538 AcrossReveal answer → Location of Edinburgh's dismissive police538 AcrossReveal answer → Plant638 AcrossReveal answer → Lacehole639 AcrossReveal answer → Deal540 AcrossReveal answer →

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As yet51 DownReveal answer → Chief51 DownReveal answer → Victims there to be shot at?51 DownReveal answer → Eager to learn72 DownReveal answer → When the love went out of it, Carmen was distraught72 DownReveal answer → Hell52 DownReveal answer → Marry33 DownReveal answer → Perceive sound44 DownReveal answer → Worshipped64 DownReveal answer → A hot individual can sharpen things up44 DownReveal answer → Pitcher45 DownReveal answer → The underworld is a noted puzzle65 DownReveal answer → Private evening party65 DownReveal answer → Free36 DownReveal answer → Melodies56 DownReveal answer → It spins as it rises56 DownReveal answer → Hurt57 DownReveal answer → Pungent57 DownReveal answer → KO shot?57 DownReveal answer → Avarice58 DownReveal answer → And not39 DownReveal answer → Equatorial high ground?39 DownReveal answer → Shows no interest in rediscovered regions712 DownReveal answer → Sure712 DownReveal answer → Flawless713 DownReveal answer → If you eat it, don't bolt it314 DownReveal answer → Saltpetre514 DownReveal answer → Card game314 DownReveal answer → In one way or another, poorer516 DownReveal answer → Imitate516 DownReveal answer → Competition716 DownReveal answer → Incisors, for example517 DownReveal answer → Nice people, each having doctors around517 DownReveal answer → Plunged518 DownReveal answer → Widen719 DownReveal answer → Vigour319 DownReveal answer → Finicky fellow's American place at Flamborough Head719 DownReveal answer → Keyboard instrument520 DownReveal answer → Green jumpers520 DownReveal answer → Like the nose, say, it needs to be blown521 DownReveal answer → Picture puzzle521 DownReveal answer → Weary522 DownReveal answer → European country723 DownReveal answer → Tow-headed cad, a bit of a pig723 DownReveal answer → I'm crazed with anger at the deception!624 DownReveal answer → Rug324 DownReveal answer → Cashier624 DownReveal answer → Vessel's incomplete journey325 DownReveal answer → Pinch325 DownReveal answer → Circled627 DownReveal answer → Artificial waterway527 DownReveal answer → Has fun or gets upset with politicians527 DownReveal answer → Test528 DownReveal answer → Exaggeratedly masculine528 DownReveal answer → It can be spoken (not fluently!) in part of Baltimore528 DownReveal answer → Sum529 DownReveal answer → Sentimental and so very soft at the story's end530 DownReveal answer → Atlantic, for example530 DownReveal answer → Recover531 DownReveal answer → Boat of logs432 DownReveal answer → Ground532 DownReveal answer → Recent reduction in cash432 DownReveal answer → Charge heavily for a quarter of an hour one morning333 DownReveal answer → Anger333 DownReveal answer → Tolerate434 DownReveal answer → Damp336 DownReveal answer → Watch337 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the Evening Standard crossword published on Saturday, August 16, 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.