Evening Standard Crossword December 20 2025 Answers

Saturday puzzle · 126 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 126 clues from the Evening Standard Crossword for December 20 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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ClueLetters#Answer

A change of rod61 AcrossReveal answer → Yearly records61 AcrossReveal answer → Bird-house61 AcrossReveal answer → Defeat45 AcrossReveal answer → Due to crimes, one gets away to a change of scene87 AcrossReveal answer → Always87 AcrossReveal answer → A `ilaid back^i sort of face?48 AcrossReveal answer → Challenge48 AcrossReveal answer → Heaped58 AcrossReveal answer → Free39 AcrossReveal answer → Newspaper boss610 AcrossReveal answer → Maybe historic pincer movement610 AcrossReveal answer → Face410 AcrossReveal answer → Jungle expedition611 AcrossReveal answer → She's where the boats are611 AcrossReveal answer → Existence411 AcrossReveal answer → Restrict512 AcrossReveal answer → Cupboard613 AcrossReveal answer → Acquire314 AcrossReveal answer → A gross denial!314 AcrossReveal answer → Lake416 AcrossReveal answer → Easy one for film fans?516 AcrossReveal answer → Italian city516 AcrossReveal answer → Fish type417 AcrossReveal answer → Regretted putting a plant at the end of the bed417 AcrossReveal answer → Huge418 AcrossReveal answer → Music man at a party519 AcrossReveal answer → Meat in rashers519 AcrossReveal answer → Finish320 AcrossReveal answer → Residential hotel for some, possibly521 AcrossReveal answer → Sucrose521 AcrossReveal answer → Vehicle322 AcrossReveal answer → Lamp spirit522 AcrossReveal answer → Inert gas522 AcrossReveal answer → Special study of a new role423 AcrossReveal answer → Moose323 AcrossReveal answer → Pace423 AcrossReveal answer → Tardy424 AcrossReveal answer → Formerly425 AcrossReveal answer → Illegal burning526 AcrossReveal answer → Is he saving up to tour Reims?526 AcrossReveal answer → A low328 AcrossReveal answer → Infuriate628 AcrossReveal answer → Swear to figure at the town centre328 AcrossReveal answer → Cure629 AcrossReveal answer → Listed as having tied me in a knot!629 AcrossReveal answer → Restaurant worker630 AcrossReveal answer → Strip and take a plunge, by the way630 AcrossReveal answer → Cog530 AcrossReveal answer → Dramatic weather431 AcrossReveal answer → This place431 AcrossReveal answer → To deceive a chap, you need to be believable832 AcrossReveal answer → Jewellery item832 AcrossReveal answer → Discharge432 AcrossReveal answer → Jot433 AcrossReveal answer → Deep ditch or furrow633 AcrossReveal answer → Initially went into garden with a massive tent633 AcrossReveal answer → Freeze334 AcrossReveal answer → Intended535 AcrossReveal answer → Pip436 AcrossReveal answer → Wrote637 AcrossReveal answer →

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Lightly61 DownReveal answer → Part of speech61 DownReveal answer → Something to eat before breakfast61 DownReveal answer → Subsides62 DownReveal answer → Twisted a twin boy62 DownReveal answer → Obscene82 DownReveal answer → Prophet43 DownReveal answer → Hothead Leo gets in a jam!43 DownReveal answer → Save63 DownReveal answer → Originator74 DownReveal answer → Industry94 DownReveal answer → Payments possibly made to warders74 DownReveal answer → Sharp enough to help out with credit55 DownReveal answer → Of the sun55 DownReveal answer → Trust75 DownReveal answer → Revise46 DownReveal answer → He can look as good as gold56 DownReveal answer → Tree sap56 DownReveal answer → Pour47 DownReveal answer → Have a meal with some eccentric friends48 DownReveal answer → Friend38 DownReveal answer → Lodgings48 DownReveal answer → Decompose39 DownReveal answer → Play more than a scene39 DownReveal answer → Merriment312 DownReveal answer → The right number in Brazil312 DownReveal answer → Wash out513 DownReveal answer → No encouragement from lady Guinevere!513 DownReveal answer → Disgusting914 DownReveal answer → Truck515 DownReveal answer → Enquire315 DownReveal answer → Can be read with a bit of a smile during concert pieces515 DownReveal answer → Managed317 DownReveal answer → Cognizant518 DownReveal answer → Left more or less in the dark518 DownReveal answer → In outer Coventry, he's accepted as a friend319 DownReveal answer → Unopened flower319 DownReveal answer → Dog819 DownReveal answer → Originally named part of Nine Elms320 DownReveal answer → Container320 DownReveal answer → Consume320 DownReveal answer → In this case, a complaint by a non-believer721 DownReveal answer → Light shoes721 DownReveal answer → Dedicated721 DownReveal answer → Motherless girl, and a treasure322 DownReveal answer → Fish eggs322 DownReveal answer → Private evening party623 DownReveal answer → Very fond of wine in the wood623 DownReveal answer → Nominally, he guides one out West424 DownReveal answer → Carry424 DownReveal answer → Meets up with an Egyptian leader in high regard625 DownReveal answer → Die625 DownReveal answer → Undertake626 DownReveal answer → Stadium526 DownReveal answer → Cut up words, perhaps?526 DownReveal answer → Guard627 DownReveal answer → Slap527 DownReveal answer → River ~n a German one in the southeast527 DownReveal answer → Six to one it's a Roman road!328 DownReveal answer → Girl's name328 DownReveal answer → Muddle429 DownReveal answer → Obtained part of a promised reward430 DownReveal answer → Period430 DownReveal answer → Sharpen430 DownReveal answer → Heated331 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the Evening Standard crossword published on Saturday, December 20, 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.