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Evening Standard Crossword December 12 2025 Answers

Friday puzzle · 132 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 132 clues from the Evening Standard Crossword for December 12 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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Broom52 AcrossReveal answer → Loathe47 AcrossReveal answer → Charm68 AcrossReveal answer → Amusing story89 AcrossReveal answer → Be peeved when the eels are put in the van89 AcrossReveal answer → Leaflet59 AcrossReveal answer → Would you be sorry to find it in your garden?310 AcrossReveal answer → Term of respect310 AcrossReveal answer → Dog311 AcrossReveal answer → The cockney was sick and the weather was wintry611 AcrossReveal answer → Values611 AcrossReveal answer → Marks it "Collectors' items"612 AcrossReveal answer → Show-off612 AcrossReveal answer → Crowd313 AcrossReveal answer → What started the fire at sea?713 AcrossReveal answer → Fruit713 AcrossReveal answer → Puts the phonetic pronunciation of "idle"414 AcrossReveal answer → Gemstone414 AcrossReveal answer → Stagger415 AcrossReveal answer → Be patient and share my burden1015 AcrossReveal answer → Coward1015 AcrossReveal answer → Seed316 AcrossReveal answer → Storyteller817 AcrossReveal answer → All, I bet, very worried817 AcrossReveal answer → Idol418 AcrossReveal answer → Sharp knives718 AcrossReveal answer → Toyed with or succumbed to the temptation to swindle718 AcrossReveal answer → Regain719 AcrossReveal answer → Beancurd419 AcrossReveal answer → On the roads does it cut in, half the time?419 AcrossReveal answer → Principal420 AcrossReveal answer → Moves in with the chest, taking a little time off621 AcrossReveal answer → Gave a speech621 AcrossReveal answer → Gap422 AcrossReveal answer → Encourage723 AcrossReveal answer → George Eliot novel1724 AcrossReveal answer → Came up to scratch as a roundsman?1724 AcrossReveal answer → Stove425 AcrossReveal answer → Mysterious627 AcrossReveal answer → Drink after drink627 AcrossReveal answer → Youth327 AcrossReveal answer → Gull428 AcrossReveal answer → Someone drawing rank429 AcrossReveal answer → Require429 AcrossReveal answer → Came blithely in like a breath of fresh air?730 AcrossReveal answer → Top naval officer730 AcrossReveal answer → Free330 AcrossReveal answer → Delved331 AcrossReveal answer → Musty533 AcrossReveal answer → Unhappily, there's little in do-it-yourself833 AcrossReveal answer → Hunger833 AcrossReveal answer → To start with, regard as a duty1035 AcrossReveal answer → Mischievous Irish elf1035 AcrossReveal answer → Figurine636 AcrossReveal answer → Drink and get fired436 AcrossReveal answer → Therefore436 AcrossReveal answer → Envelop437 AcrossReveal answer → Drank alcohol737 AcrossReveal answer → Having putted round again, reached greater heights737 AcrossReveal answer → Communicate638 AcrossReveal answer → Jam538 AcrossReveal answer → Yell desperately on being locked inside, desolate638 AcrossReveal answer → Breakfast dish640 AcrossReveal answer → Show always to back a certain number640 AcrossReveal answer → Body of water341 AcrossReveal answer → In practice, Rod came round and wakened one up341 AcrossReveal answer → Busy period842 AcrossReveal answer → To put it briefly, not for the stupid842 AcrossReveal answer →

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Light-hearted101 DownReveal answer → Obscure51 DownReveal answer → A break for the others, full stop101 DownReveal answer → Land measure42 DownReveal answer → Wager32 DownReveal answer → The best tree in the orchard42 DownReveal answer → Passage83 DownReveal answer → Plan to be used with the person I have broken with83 DownReveal answer → Ocean33 DownReveal answer → Rug34 DownReveal answer → Small crane74 DownReveal answer → Why so terribly late coming in? That's rich!74 DownReveal answer → Cunning35 DownReveal answer → Suddenly believe --- you will get out of the tunnel?115 DownReveal answer → Battleship115 DownReveal answer → Earlier56 DownReveal answer → Grey predator106 DownReveal answer → Cutting it down to the one word "fat"106 DownReveal answer → Felt hat67 DownReveal answer → Put in the wrong place and lose?67 DownReveal answer → Large Scottish sword88 DownReveal answer → Gossamer thin? Excellent88 DownReveal answer → Scamp is unlike the others of his breed510 DownReveal answer → Fashionable410 DownReveal answer → Sudden gush of liquid510 DownReveal answer → Maker711 DownReveal answer → Attained712 DownReveal answer → Deserved713 DownReveal answer → Fleeing714 DownReveal answer → Mediterranean coastal region716 DownReveal answer → Annoys one day after day going through the questions716 DownReveal answer → Gem516 DownReveal answer → Sat517 DownReveal answer → Girl’s318 DownReveal answer → Imperial weight measure520 DownReveal answer → Go off and leave you thoroughly confused520 DownReveal answer → Chicken321 DownReveal answer → From the new char poor Leo caught the disease722 DownReveal answer → Put an end to722 DownReveal answer → Rotten in the role of the good-looking baddie?1123 DownReveal answer → Old weapon1123 DownReveal answer → Acid424 DownReveal answer → Not qualified1025 DownReveal answer → How much is known about the mysterious miniature?1025 DownReveal answer → Surprised by there not being an address?1026 DownReveal answer → View526 DownReveal answer → Extremely dignified1026 DownReveal answer → Witty remark828 DownReveal answer → Increase the number the bird is carrying828 DownReveal answer → Rustic529 DownReveal answer → How good, but rather frightening, the story was?831 DownReveal answer → Formal combatant831 DownReveal answer → Make for, having miscued732 DownReveal answer → Arachnids732 DownReveal answer → Pig-pen332 DownReveal answer → Stitch333 DownReveal answer → Ran away to marry634 DownReveal answer → Help334 DownReveal answer → An affair that does have importance634 DownReveal answer → One of the services might535 DownReveal answer → Zodiac sign535 DownReveal answer → Sheep335 DownReveal answer → Want to return home, having the key to get in439 DownReveal answer → Dull pain439 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the Evening Standard crossword published on Friday, December 12, 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.