Evening Standard Crossword August 28 2025 Answers

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Below are all 124 clues from the Evening Standard Crossword for August 28 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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Nun's costume51 AcrossReveal answer → Throng51 AcrossReveal answer → A black suit51 AcrossReveal answer → Broadcasting65 AcrossReveal answer → As used in making pies around Christmas, initially?56 AcrossReveal answer → Flavour56 AcrossReveal answer → Perch58 AcrossReveal answer → Posy79 AcrossReveal answer → Evidently cereal repast79 AcrossReveal answer → Save610 AcrossReveal answer → Cooker510 AcrossReveal answer → To a medical person, it means scope510 AcrossReveal answer → Brings up511 AcrossReveal answer → We hear it has charms511 AcrossReveal answer → Otherwise411 AcrossReveal answer → Prevents arrests?512 AcrossReveal answer → Indications512 AcrossReveal answer → Like that Baconian theory, a bit unreliable713 AcrossReveal answer → Health-check713 AcrossReveal answer → Customer614 AcrossReveal answer → Father315 AcrossReveal answer → Harlesden's youth centre?315 AcrossReveal answer → Compete715 AcrossReveal answer → Prayer ending417 AcrossReveal answer → Employer of a shifty ruse417 AcrossReveal answer → Enclosure318 AcrossReveal answer → Convince, guarantee618 AcrossReveal answer → Some rubbish about a safety device618 AcrossReveal answer → Scull319 AcrossReveal answer → Not smooth519 AcrossReveal answer → Certainly not the distaff519 AcrossReveal answer → Extra terrestrials, as around the Nile, possibly620 AcrossReveal answer → Small cupboard620 AcrossReveal answer → Expensive421 AcrossReveal answer → I had to back the Gunners to attack422 AcrossReveal answer → Nuisance422 AcrossReveal answer → Remedied523 AcrossReveal answer → Farmyard bird324 AcrossReveal answer → Skin424 AcrossReveal answer → There's a 'water' kind (in the Euphrates?)324 AcrossReveal answer → Scolds harshly725 AcrossReveal answer → A number happening to be in the fringes of society725 AcrossReveal answer → Fairy type526 AcrossReveal answer → I avow it's a southern river!526 AcrossReveal answer → Eurasian mammal527 AcrossReveal answer → Soundly bred on plain food527 AcrossReveal answer → Fixed327 AcrossReveal answer → By sheltering the sick, make a name528 AcrossReveal answer → Robust528 AcrossReveal answer → Legendary builder who redeveloped our slum729 AcrossReveal answer → Of the stomach729 AcrossReveal answer → Fish329 AcrossReveal answer → Starting with fifty, he returned with nine530 AcrossReveal answer → Thin porridge530 AcrossReveal answer → Something electrifyingly hairy?531 AcrossReveal answer → Entice531 AcrossReveal answer → Aloof731 AcrossReveal answer → Trader632 AcrossReveal answer → Insect434 AcrossReveal answer → Harmony635 AcrossReveal answer → Crawl538 AcrossReveal answer → Ordain639 AcrossReveal answer → Cogs540 AcrossReveal answer →

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National song62 DownReveal answer → Fish-eggs32 DownReveal answer → It's after 51 thousand that there are restrictions62 DownReveal answer → It's for water but contains oil63 DownReveal answer → Garland63 DownReveal answer → With no success63 DownReveal answer → Rested, then returned to an incomplete task34 DownReveal answer → Rabbit34 DownReveal answer → Foot part34 DownReveal answer → Pace45 DownReveal answer → May it form friendship55 DownReveal answer → Danger55 DownReveal answer → Squandered66 DownReveal answer → More than plentiful evidence of embroidery skill76 DownReveal answer → Discolour76 DownReveal answer → Store67 DownReveal answer → Yes votes47 DownReveal answer → Extra soft, with a bit of lustre47 DownReveal answer → Many wage adjustments mean trouble68 DownReveal answer → Deposit on teeth68 DownReveal answer → Threatening79 DownReveal answer → Wooden shoe512 DownReveal answer → Circuit312 DownReveal answer → Avoids reading things full of rubbish?512 DownReveal answer → Sea-eagle413 DownReveal answer → To tease us up is sweet!513 DownReveal answer → Game513 DownReveal answer → Fiend514 DownReveal answer → A terrible fire at the end of the street involves repair514 DownReveal answer → Lord socially acceptable in disorganised clan515 DownReveal answer → Continental quilt515 DownReveal answer → Formerly416 DownReveal answer → At journey's end, see many looking off-colour516 DownReveal answer → Financial liabilities516 DownReveal answer → Challenged517 DownReveal answer → Concur518 DownReveal answer → Speedy winner in a famous car518 DownReveal answer → Musical performance719 DownReveal answer → Where wintry precipitation's almost done?719 DownReveal answer → Train720 DownReveal answer → Annie's boy?621 DownReveal answer → Missive621 DownReveal answer → Soon422 DownReveal answer → Monarch's residence622 DownReveal answer → You can do what you like with it622 DownReveal answer → Of the emphatic type?623 DownReveal answer → Parody, imitation623 DownReveal answer → Cushioned624 DownReveal answer → Old place name, rum as can be525 DownReveal answer → Bearing of offspring525 DownReveal answer → Petal425 DownReveal answer → In which a woman could give herself airs?426 DownReveal answer → Leaf of a book426 DownReveal answer → Cashier626 DownReveal answer → Busoni piece usually without conductor328 DownReveal answer → Band628 DownReveal answer → Strike328 DownReveal answer → Shelter330 DownReveal answer → Tribe433 DownReveal answer → Entrap336 DownReveal answer → Abroad337 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the Evening Standard crossword published on Thursday, August 28, 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.