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Evening Standard Crossword December 18 2025 Answers

Thursday puzzle · 128 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all the Evening Standard Crossword December 18 2025 answers. The Thursday puzzle has 128 clues; every answer has been verified. Click any clue to see every answer it has ever had, across every publisher in our database.

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ClueAnswerLettersDirection#
RotDECAY5Across1 FallTOPPLE6Across1 The typist's room naturally has a barSPACE5Across1 PrincipalSTAPLE6Across5 Boringly regular procedure?DRILL5Across6 A set-toFIGHT5Across6 Go inENTER5Across9 Available for purchase, but not at presentINSTORE7Across9 ArdourFERVOUR7Across9 SimplerEASIER6Across10 Loving to have a bit of fun, as discoveredFOUND5Across10 DerisionSCORN5Across10 VictorWINNER6Across11 Quick, informallyNIFTY5Across11 You can write it if you tryESSAY5Across11 Cuts into cubesDICES5Across12 Round-upRODEO5Across12 The wind's high, confound it!BLAST5Across12 He's not particular who he orders aboutGENERAL7Across13 VisualOPTICAL7Across13 CurdleCLOT4Across14 That seedy Dickens characterPIP3Across15 FatherDAD3Across15 Peruse writingREAD4Across17 Going astray, he'll roamOMAR4Across17 YouthLAD3Across17 A queenly word about a womanREGINA6Across18 SaltySALINE6Across18 TrustHOPE4Across18 Sullen or angry frownSCOWL5Across19 Don conceals them, the devil!DEMON5Across19 CongenitalINNATE6Across20 Bagged some loot?SACKED6Across20 CharteredHIRED5Across20 Superlative of goodBEST4Across22 A word of warningFORE4Across22 DeclinedWANED5Across22 RecoveredRALLIED7Across23 Lovely part of CambridgeshireELY3Across24 UntidyMESSY5Across24 ToddlerTOT3Across24 Greek restaurantTAVERNA7Across25 Showing exceptional potential in males, perhapsSEMINAL7Across25 Holds up certain cardsJACKS5Across26 LukewarmTEPID5Across26 SwaggerSTRUT5Across26 Flying toysKITES5Across27 See the point of a strange titleGETIT5Across27 A desire breathily voicedAITCH5Across28 Remembrance flowerPOPPY5Across28 Soldiers losing out around a key centre?LEGIONS7Across29 Small amount or portionMODICUM7Across29 InactiveIDLE4Across29 Ecclesiastical clangers?BELLS5Across30 StartBEGIN5Across30 MarryWED3Across30 NervyTENSE5Across31 Carelessly shut about a fifth of the doors, with noise!THUDS5Across31 OnlySOLE4Across32 PaledFADED5Across33 ReiterateREPEAT6Across35 GaspedPANTED6Across36 SingerTENOR5Across37 TillerRUDDER6Across38 SinewTENDON6Across39

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ClueAnswerLettersDirection#
DitchTRENCH6Down1 Get awayESCAPE6Down2 ClergymanPASTOR6Down2 Tore around during the afternoon, obviously not for ever!PROTEM6Down2 Kind of track possibly followed by EllaCINDER6Down3 OgleLEER4Down3 FrightenedAFRAID6Down3 EnlistENROL5Down4 Finish up in HarpendenEND3Down4 Monetary unitYEN3Down4 StitchedSEWED5Down5 Stop running a small businessSTALL5Down5 Be of useAVAIL5Down5 ThreesomeTRIO4Down6 Finding the place strange, maybe reddensDRESDEN7Down6 Burial or cremationFUNERAL7Down6 PlantIRIS4Down7 StreamerPENNON6Down7 Sleep on the snooker table?REST4Down7 Introductory denial, possiblyLEADIN6Down8 Hired assassinHITMAN6Down8 DeservedEARNED6Down8 Move to musicDANCE5Down12 Made some lakes in one's rest time?BAKED5Down12 DawdledDALLIED7Down13 The silly thing goes mad about nothing!GOOSE5Down13 Planet's pathORBIT5Down13 A woman's placeNANCY5Down14 TeaseTAUNT5Down14 ExistedLIVED5Down15 Has a point but maybe no tipPITON5Down15 FrogmanDIVER5Down15 AbruptTERSE5Down16 Greek letterDELTA5Down16 Sort of game that means all to the Spanish?PANEL5Down16 HellHADES5Down18 PerspireSWEAT5Down18 Flowers for a girl starting school?ROSES5Down18 Discusses taking notes during appointmentsDEBATES7Down19 DangerPERIL5Down19 Cowboy hatSTETSON7Down19 Claim that might be legal for middle-menALLEGE6Down21 AgeDAY3Down21 Act of perceivingNOTICE6Down21 Develop intoBECOME6Down22 DampWET3Down22 Fishin', strangely enough, does have an end!FINISH6Down22 Wading birdsSNIPES6Down23 Bad way to have organised a police departmentRANCID6Down23 ReflectMIRROR6Down24 Spring bulbTULIP5Down25 Hank's geeseSKEIN5Down25 InclinedSLOPED6Down25 She makes jack initially sickJILL4Down26 House typeSEMI4Down26 MailedPOSTED6Down27 Hill dweller a six footer?ANT3Down28 BenumbDEADEN6Down28 To placePUT3Down28 IrrigateWATER5Down30 StorehouseDEPOT5Down31 DestinyFATE4Down33 ChallengeDARE4Down34

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This page lists every clue and answer from the Evening Standard crossword published on Thursday, December 18, 2025. Answers are checked against the completed grid before publishing. 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.