Evening Standard Crossword December 18 2025 Answers

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Below are all 128 clues from the Evening Standard Crossword for December 18 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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Rot51 AcrossReveal answer → Fall61 AcrossReveal answer → The typist's room naturally has a bar51 AcrossReveal answer → Principal65 AcrossReveal answer → Boringly regular procedure?56 AcrossReveal answer → A set-to56 AcrossReveal answer → Go in59 AcrossReveal answer → Available for purchase, but not at present79 AcrossReveal answer → Ardour79 AcrossReveal answer → Simpler610 AcrossReveal answer → Loving to have a bit of fun, as discovered510 AcrossReveal answer → Derision510 AcrossReveal answer → Victor611 AcrossReveal answer → Quick, informally511 AcrossReveal answer → You can write it if you try511 AcrossReveal answer → Cuts into cubes512 AcrossReveal answer → Round-up512 AcrossReveal answer → The wind's high, confound it!512 AcrossReveal answer → He's not particular who he orders about713 AcrossReveal answer → Visual713 AcrossReveal answer → Curdle414 AcrossReveal answer → That seedy Dickens character315 AcrossReveal answer → Father315 AcrossReveal answer → Peruse writing417 AcrossReveal answer → Going astray, he'll roam417 AcrossReveal answer → Youth317 AcrossReveal answer → A queenly word about a woman618 AcrossReveal answer → Salty618 AcrossReveal answer → Trust418 AcrossReveal answer → Sullen or angry frown519 AcrossReveal answer → Don conceals them, the devil!519 AcrossReveal answer → Congenital620 AcrossReveal answer → Bagged some loot?620 AcrossReveal answer → Chartered520 AcrossReveal answer → Superlative of good422 AcrossReveal answer → A word of warning422 AcrossReveal answer → Declined522 AcrossReveal answer → Recovered723 AcrossReveal answer → Lovely part of Cambridgeshire324 AcrossReveal answer → Untidy524 AcrossReveal answer → Toddler324 AcrossReveal answer → Greek restaurant725 AcrossReveal answer → Showing exceptional potential in males, perhaps725 AcrossReveal answer → Holds up certain cards526 AcrossReveal answer → Lukewarm526 AcrossReveal answer → Swagger526 AcrossReveal answer → Flying toys527 AcrossReveal answer → See the point of a strange title527 AcrossReveal answer → A desire breathily voiced528 AcrossReveal answer → Remembrance flower528 AcrossReveal answer → Soldiers losing out around a key centre?729 AcrossReveal answer → Small amount or portion729 AcrossReveal answer → Inactive429 AcrossReveal answer → Ecclesiastical clangers?530 AcrossReveal answer → Start530 AcrossReveal answer → Marry330 AcrossReveal answer → Nervy531 AcrossReveal answer → Carelessly shut about a fifth of the doors, with noise!531 AcrossReveal answer → Only432 AcrossReveal answer → Paled533 AcrossReveal answer → Reiterate635 AcrossReveal answer → Gasped636 AcrossReveal answer → Singer537 AcrossReveal answer → Tiller638 AcrossReveal answer → Sinew639 AcrossReveal answer →

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Ditch61 DownReveal answer → Get away62 DownReveal answer → Clergyman62 DownReveal answer → Tore around during the afternoon, obviously not for ever!62 DownReveal answer → Kind of track possibly followed by Ella63 DownReveal answer → Ogle43 DownReveal answer → Frightened63 DownReveal answer → Enlist54 DownReveal answer → Finish up in Harpenden34 DownReveal answer → Monetary unit34 DownReveal answer → Stitched55 DownReveal answer → Stop running a small business55 DownReveal answer → Be of use55 DownReveal answer → Threesome46 DownReveal answer → Finding the place strange, maybe reddens76 DownReveal answer → Burial or cremation76 DownReveal answer → Plant47 DownReveal answer → Streamer67 DownReveal answer → Sleep on the snooker table?47 DownReveal answer → Introductory denial, possibly68 DownReveal answer → Hired assassin68 DownReveal answer → Deserved68 DownReveal answer → Move to music512 DownReveal answer → Made some lakes in one's rest time?512 DownReveal answer → Dawdled713 DownReveal answer → The silly thing goes mad about nothing!513 DownReveal answer → Planet's path513 DownReveal answer → A woman's place514 DownReveal answer → Tease514 DownReveal answer → Existed515 DownReveal answer → Has a point but maybe no tip515 DownReveal answer → Frogman515 DownReveal answer → Abrupt516 DownReveal answer → Greek letter516 DownReveal answer → Sort of game that means all to the Spanish?516 DownReveal answer → Hell518 DownReveal answer → Perspire518 DownReveal answer → Flowers for a girl starting school?518 DownReveal answer → Discusses taking notes during appointments719 DownReveal answer → Danger519 DownReveal answer → Cowboy hat719 DownReveal answer → Claim that might be legal for middle-men621 DownReveal answer → Age321 DownReveal answer → Act of perceiving621 DownReveal answer → Develop into622 DownReveal answer → Damp322 DownReveal answer → Fishin', strangely enough, does have an end!622 DownReveal answer → Wading birds623 DownReveal answer → Bad way to have organised a police department623 DownReveal answer → Reflect624 DownReveal answer → Spring bulb525 DownReveal answer → Hank's geese525 DownReveal answer → Inclined625 DownReveal answer → She makes jack initially sick426 DownReveal answer → House type426 DownReveal answer → Mailed627 DownReveal answer → Hill dweller a six footer?328 DownReveal answer → Benumb628 DownReveal answer → To place328 DownReveal answer → Irrigate530 DownReveal answer → Storehouse531 DownReveal answer → Destiny433 DownReveal answer → Challenge434 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the Evening Standard crossword published on Thursday, December 18, 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.