Evening Standard Crossword December 24 2025 Answers

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Below are all 128 clues from the Evening Standard Crossword for December 24 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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Divide41 AcrossReveal answer → Commendation64 AcrossReveal answer → Jump34 AcrossReveal answer → They may well be only human64 AcrossReveal answer → Choose46 AcrossReveal answer → A drink for the inexperienced?87 AcrossReveal answer → Clothes closet87 AcrossReveal answer → Earlier68 AcrossReveal answer → Counting frame68 AcrossReveal answer → Utterly audible!68 AcrossReveal answer → Mad69 AcrossReveal answer → Star sign510 AcrossReveal answer → Elderly310 AcrossReveal answer → Let money relieve matters510 AcrossReveal answer → Started512 AcrossReveal answer → Feeble fellow always falling down?413 AcrossReveal answer → Quarry413 AcrossReveal answer → It's right on the map414 AcrossReveal answer → Lilliputian414 AcrossReveal answer → Under514 AcrossReveal answer → The Green twins?415 AcrossReveal answer → Hairless415 AcrossReveal answer → Elbow515 AcrossReveal answer → A number possibly looking cross316 AcrossReveal answer → Tennis shot316 AcrossReveal answer → Bring up417 AcrossReveal answer → Being stony is nothing, mate417 AcrossReveal answer → Writer618 AcrossReveal answer → Den419 AcrossReveal answer → Stepped on a split-ended stick419 AcrossReveal answer → Guide620 AcrossReveal answer → Sort of government partly of concern to pit workers?921 AcrossReveal answer → Terrifying dream921 AcrossReveal answer → Pretty girl, maybe a bit squawky423 AcrossReveal answer → Active or energetic person423 AcrossReveal answer → Nude524 AcrossReveal answer → Title424 AcrossReveal answer → Turn left at Land's End, and there's a sort of mine424 AcrossReveal answer → Kingly526 AcrossReveal answer → Young goat326 AcrossReveal answer → Old-fashioned youth centre326 AcrossReveal answer → Water jug427 AcrossReveal answer → Pale due to having a fling?427 AcrossReveal answer → Adored528 AcrossReveal answer → Unguis429 AcrossReveal answer → The ages of noted artists?429 AcrossReveal answer → Marry330 AcrossReveal answer → Operator432 AcrossReveal answer → He resembles Sir Walter no end!432 AcrossReveal answer → Figurine632 AcrossReveal answer → Disreputable place for a smoke?533 AcrossReveal answer → Shrewd633 AcrossReveal answer → Emblem533 AcrossReveal answer → Frenchified setting?634 AcrossReveal answer → Trampled434 AcrossReveal answer → Funeral car634 AcrossReveal answer → Count art, if unconventional, as renegade!835 AcrossReveal answer → Dance335 AcrossReveal answer → Become liquid835 AcrossReveal answer → Possibly show round the house, not in silence636 AcrossReveal answer → Sand-hill436 AcrossReveal answer → Strain, emphasis636 AcrossReveal answer →

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Perspire51 DownReveal answer → An American, to the French, is athletic51 DownReveal answer → To coach52 DownReveal answer → Artist, to some degree Anglo Saxon52 DownReveal answer → Stood52 DownReveal answer → Plant type43 DownReveal answer → Formerly in concealment43 DownReveal answer → Drums73 DownReveal answer → Oyster's gem54 DownReveal answer → Idol44 DownReveal answer → One place where bachelors can join the artillery54 DownReveal answer → Settled45 DownReveal answer → Off45 DownReveal answer → Support for the small business owner45 DownReveal answer → Adhesive56 DownReveal answer → Dazed state66 DownReveal answer → Out East, the couple watched what they ate66 DownReveal answer → Comfort77 DownReveal answer → Mayhem69 DownReveal answer → A bit of a bloomer69 DownReveal answer → Chest bone311 DownReveal answer → A listener to something corny?311 DownReveal answer → Record311 DownReveal answer → Without love, this supporter may be lost512 DownReveal answer → Coach312 DownReveal answer → Eagle's nest512 DownReveal answer → Gist313 DownReveal answer → Being Turkish, is sweet713 DownReveal answer → Ally, companion713 DownReveal answer → Expression of disgust315 DownReveal answer → Amiable choral piece ~n on the piano!315 DownReveal answer → Falsehood316 DownReveal answer → Lair316 DownReveal answer → Too fast for the road junction ahead316 DownReveal answer → Moose317 DownReveal answer → A fine place for dad to do up his shoes!618 DownReveal answer → Exit618 DownReveal answer → Maker719 DownReveal answer → Where the cowboy couldn't stay on a horse?520 DownReveal answer → Stadium520 DownReveal answer → I don't remember getting much sleep in it321 DownReveal answer → Signal agreement321 DownReveal answer → Fish321 DownReveal answer → For which Topsy would have given both pence and shillings?322 DownReveal answer → Assumed722 DownReveal answer → Spoil322 DownReveal answer → Straightforward623 DownReveal answer → Wand323 DownReveal answer → Unship in a way to cause hurt623 DownReveal answer → Hatchet325 DownReveal answer → Hairpiece325 DownReveal answer → Chap with a masterly way?325 DownReveal answer → Performed527 DownReveal answer → Sunny side down?528 DownReveal answer → Unwelcome plants528 DownReveal answer → Consumed529 DownReveal answer → Confuse530 DownReveal answer → City with quiet centre amid iron production530 DownReveal answer → Departed430 DownReveal answer → Moist431 DownReveal answer → Prise531 DownReveal answer → Declare in doubtful taste531 DownReveal answer → Form of soil from which to get fodder?432 DownReveal answer → A strong impulse432 DownReveal answer → Useless vessel?433 DownReveal answer → Gaffer433 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the Evening Standard crossword published on Wednesday, December 24, 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.