Evening Standard Crossword August 20 2025 Answers

Wednesday puzzle · 126 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 126 clues from the Evening Standard Crossword for August 20 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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Phantom51 AcrossReveal answer → Fast transport for a quiet country road51 AcrossReveal answer → Feeble52 AcrossReveal answer → Geese to look up to?56 AcrossReveal answer → Era56 AcrossReveal answer → Annoyance57 AcrossReveal answer → Sag58 AcrossReveal answer → According to reason79 AcrossReveal answer → Tell how the axle pin broke79 AcrossReveal answer → Rescued510 AcrossReveal answer → Behave smugly510 AcrossReveal answer → Kept cool510 AcrossReveal answer → Perch511 AcrossReveal answer → A vegetable vessel511 AcrossReveal answer → Tease512 AcrossReveal answer → The correct direction512 AcrossReveal answer → Possess312 AcrossReveal answer → Get better713 AcrossReveal answer → Put off by the song during an act713 AcrossReveal answer → Slumber513 AcrossReveal answer → A worn machine part315 AcrossReveal answer → Interfered715 AcrossReveal answer → Jump on one foot315 AcrossReveal answer → Rode around the river417 AcrossReveal answer → Alighted617 AcrossReveal answer → Minute particle417 AcrossReveal answer → And Eva managed to sort out where Reno was618 AcrossReveal answer → Take for granted618 AcrossReveal answer → Fish319 AcrossReveal answer → Dashing young man known as a Red?519 AcrossReveal answer → Very tall person519 AcrossReveal answer → Grand amours understood to be fitting620 AcrossReveal answer → Pressed620 AcrossReveal answer → Delineated720 AcrossReveal answer → Organ one's broken422 AcrossReveal answer → Cut into cubes422 AcrossReveal answer → Rind423 AcrossReveal answer → One has the makings of a great time324 AcrossReveal answer → Karate expert324 AcrossReveal answer → Expensive425 AcrossReveal answer → Lodger725 AcrossReveal answer → To glide freely at height can be a joy!725 AcrossReveal answer → Lordly lad capturing the heart of a girl526 AcrossReveal answer → Regain726 AcrossReveal answer → Disparage526 AcrossReveal answer → Aircraft detection system527 AcrossReveal answer → It's strikingly misplaced in a down to earth way527 AcrossReveal answer → Time for a shower528 AcrossReveal answer → Spaghetti, for example528 AcrossReveal answer → A great day to go to Chile, possibly in a carrier729 AcrossReveal answer → Principal bullfighter729 AcrossReveal answer → Two? Goody!530 AcrossReveal answer → Cant530 AcrossReveal answer → Lettuce330 AcrossReveal answer → Kinds531 AcrossReveal answer → Erase631 AcrossReveal answer → Showed interest when priced a hundred less531 AcrossReveal answer → Broadcast734 AcrossReveal answer → Troubled537 AcrossReveal answer → Fasten338 AcrossReveal answer → Quilt539 AcrossReveal answer → Fret540 AcrossReveal answer → God541 AcrossReveal answer → Postpone542 AcrossReveal answer →

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House51 DownReveal answer → Protection for the head62 DownReveal answer → Melted52 DownReveal answer → Sort of proprietor who got the job?62 DownReveal answer → It tastes heavenly with ambrosia63 DownReveal answer → Harvested63 DownReveal answer → Skiing race63 DownReveal answer → Detail44 DownReveal answer → No longer noted as a river?34 DownReveal answer → Toddler34 DownReveal answer → Poked75 DownReveal answer → Material authority I had55 DownReveal answer → Cheroot, for example55 DownReveal answer → Sharpened56 DownReveal answer → Observed to be soundly located76 DownReveal answer → Sincere76 DownReveal answer → One tied at speed?47 DownReveal answer → Conspiracy47 DownReveal answer → The incursion Dorian made68 DownReveal answer → Traditional practice68 DownReveal answer → Bird39 DownReveal answer → Determined711 DownReveal answer → Anglers' films?512 DownReveal answer → Lukewarm512 DownReveal answer → Incline513 DownReveal answer → Quick513 DownReveal answer → A trick to avoid513 DownReveal answer → Go in514 DownReveal answer → No elm can yield fruit!514 DownReveal answer → Punctuation mark514 DownReveal answer → His associate makes him motherless!515 DownReveal answer → Hot and sticky515 DownReveal answer → Fellow316 DownReveal answer → Boy's name516 DownReveal answer → Is he young to be in uniform?516 DownReveal answer → Ousted718 DownReveal answer → Irritate, displease518 DownReveal answer → Number with a name that's well known518 DownReveal answer → Are best corrected by scolds719 DownReveal answer → Common719 DownReveal answer → Look with desire, being fairly poor621 DownReveal answer → Plunder621 DownReveal answer → Dissuade521 DownReveal answer → Doleful622 DownReveal answer → Pin-up by a youngster622 DownReveal answer → Generate522 DownReveal answer → Middle623 DownReveal answer → Bird giving a shriek?623 DownReveal answer → Reading-desk724 DownReveal answer → Staff of life525 DownReveal answer → Though priestly, he did hide some of the rules525 DownReveal answer → Nothing but the deepest affection426 DownReveal answer → Panto character426 DownReveal answer → Bed327 DownReveal answer → A record height?328 DownReveal answer → A container328 DownReveal answer → Ebb628 DownReveal answer → Performer529 DownReveal answer → Subsequently532 DownReveal answer → Cogs533 DownReveal answer → Tune335 DownReveal answer → Discourteous436 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the Evening Standard crossword published on Wednesday, August 20, 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.