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Evening Standard Crossword August 8 2025 Answers

Friday puzzle · 130 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 130 clues from the Evening Standard Crossword for August 8 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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Choose51 AcrossReveal answer → Sun-bathed65 AcrossReveal answer → Subsequently58 AcrossReveal answer → Dilemma89 AcrossReveal answer → Some came round to give a hand - honestly89 AcrossReveal answer → The gentleman father cut short310 AcrossReveal answer → Groups610 AcrossReveal answer → Zodiac sign310 AcrossReveal answer → A signal to abandon611 AcrossReveal answer → Watched411 AcrossReveal answer → Dental deposit611 AcrossReveal answer → Agree612 AcrossReveal answer → She's a no-good, knocking back drink612 AcrossReveal answer → Japanese warrior713 AcrossReveal answer → Silence on the radio or the funeral march?713 AcrossReveal answer → Dry414 AcrossReveal answer → The climbing plant, as one guessed, did cover it414 AcrossReveal answer → Harm614 AcrossReveal answer → Composure1015 AcrossReveal answer → Be under the false impression, being immature, personally1015 AcrossReveal answer → Honest715 AcrossReveal answer → Get moving to ensure you're prepared for an attack817 AcrossReveal answer → Hostile817 AcrossReveal answer → Favourite318 AcrossReveal answer → A group of spectators carrying it does prove disturbing718 AcrossReveal answer → Balance disorder718 AcrossReveal answer → Tavern319 AcrossReveal answer → Undecided, to be frank419 AcrossReveal answer → Notion419 AcrossReveal answer → Agreement621 AcrossReveal answer → Bring love into it, which is tedious621 AcrossReveal answer → Fruit421 AcrossReveal answer → Bird523 AcrossReveal answer → Grasped424 AcrossReveal answer → Sounding low and feeling thoroughly miserable1724 AcrossReveal answer → Forgo retaliation1724 AcrossReveal answer → Spot327 AcrossReveal answer → An iron and a wood I myself am carrying627 AcrossReveal answer → Male goose627 AcrossReveal answer → Fish329 AcrossReveal answer → Challenge429 AcrossReveal answer → Very funny way of conveying your disdain to an actor429 AcrossReveal answer → Do exercises for a while730 AcrossReveal answer → Greedy person730 AcrossReveal answer → Terse731 AcrossReveal answer → Gathered632 AcrossReveal answer → Padre833 AcrossReveal answer → Regarding careers, you share the same concern with him833 AcrossReveal answer → Location434 AcrossReveal answer → Guide635 AcrossReveal answer → It's to do with showing regard for others1035 AcrossReveal answer → Low-calorie food item1035 AcrossReveal answer → Mount you put a bet on, when backing436 AcrossReveal answer → Of the mouth436 AcrossReveal answer → Announce that you're not running?737 AcrossReveal answer → Ailment737 AcrossReveal answer → Vigilant538 AcrossReveal answer → Go on, chum! It's of very little importance638 AcrossReveal answer → Arrive638 AcrossReveal answer → Left639 AcrossReveal answer → Regard highly640 AcrossReveal answer → Act in accordance with and you'll succeed640 AcrossReveal answer → Prompt540 AcrossReveal answer → Immerse341 AcrossReveal answer → Taking about a quarter the time to dispose of341 AcrossReveal answer → Lineage842 AcrossReveal answer → A lack of cars, usually, approaching a built-up area842 AcrossReveal answer →

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Succeeding101 DownReveal answer → Gathering one's adding a few for convenience sake101 DownReveal answer → Leg joint42 DownReveal answer → It's good form, you say, pet42 DownReveal answer → Untruth32 DownReveal answer → Old coin83 DownReveal answer → It's clear father came back by himself83 DownReveal answer → Grasp63 DownReveal answer → Girl's school dress74 DownReveal answer → Hearing the sound of gongs, pokes one's nose in74 DownReveal answer → Sailor34 DownReveal answer → Generated45 DownReveal answer → Map reference115 DownReveal answer → Not judgmental about Americans thinking only of women?115 DownReveal answer → Appeared66 DownReveal answer → Hopeful106 DownReveal answer → Unable to be examined by the surgeon? That's unlikely106 DownReveal answer → Erase67 DownReveal answer → Seasoned sausage67 DownReveal answer → Nonsense! Hit the ball to one side67 DownReveal answer → Exultant88 DownReveal answer → Resumptions of the occurrences88 DownReveal answer → Lingered79 DownReveal answer → The stick they'll get if they don't work?510 DownReveal answer → Not smooth510 DownReveal answer → Yelp312 DownReveal answer → Facts413 DownReveal answer → Island416 DownReveal answer → Be faster than the others when there's a sudden exodus716 DownReveal answer → Dressed716 DownReveal answer → Enlist517 DownReveal answer → Dissuade520 DownReveal answer → Remarkable720 DownReveal answer → The yard got a tip off that came to nothing520 DownReveal answer → Go back and haggle some more with722 DownReveal answer → Cab422 DownReveal answer → Voter722 DownReveal answer → Certain to pour tea into - it's only to be expected1123 DownReveal answer → Principal actress1123 DownReveal answer → Lowly624 DownReveal answer → Goes to pieces when the car stalls?1025 DownReveal answer → Dry land1025 DownReveal answer → Minus425 DownReveal answer → Taking little time to grade as poor1026 DownReveal answer → Stop626 DownReveal answer → Laughing jackass1026 DownReveal answer → Taking on, or making a fuss, over the lost point828 DownReveal answer → Give628 DownReveal answer → Witty remark828 DownReveal answer → Permit330 DownReveal answer → Cosmetic item831 DownReveal answer → Pan it dreadfully when he's appearing in it as an actor831 DownReveal answer → Relative732 DownReveal answer → Vilify, at a press gathering, the English732 DownReveal answer → Deceased433 DownReveal answer → By word of mouth, when you gather round beforehand634 DownReveal answer → Young hen634 DownReveal answer → Say it's awful meat535 DownReveal answer → Inexpensive535 DownReveal answer → Stray336 DownReveal answer → Finish337 DownReveal answer → Lap speed439 DownReveal answer → Baby's biscuit439 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the Evening Standard crossword published on Friday, August 8, 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.