Evening Standard Crossword December 26 2025 Answers

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Below are all 132 clues from the Evening Standard Crossword for December 26 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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Blond41 AcrossReveal answer → Rotter34 AcrossReveal answer → Acid46 AcrossReveal answer → Imitate39 AcrossReveal answer → Past its best, like the balloon about to pop?99 AcrossReveal answer → Serving as temporary means99 AcrossReveal answer → Length810 AcrossReveal answer → Oh, back in gaol, having misbehaved? He's thoroughly lawless810 AcrossReveal answer → Deviating from norm810 AcrossReveal answer → Knife411 AcrossReveal answer → Hello! That means winter's here!412 AcrossReveal answer → Tiny amount412 AcrossReveal answer → Coming a day before the opening613 AcrossReveal answer → Russian currency unit613 AcrossReveal answer → She'll tell you your future is entirely in your own hands714 AcrossReveal answer → More fortunate714 AcrossReveal answer → Obscure314 AcrossReveal answer → Watchful915 AcrossReveal answer → Has to have mould - there's nothing else for it915 AcrossReveal answer → Cabin516 AcrossReveal answer → Continuing to put the clothes on the line or waiting917 AcrossReveal answer → Skilful917 AcrossReveal answer → Have the teeniest bit of broth, do718 AcrossReveal answer → Woman of great power718 AcrossReveal answer → Debased819 AcrossReveal answer → Had I not gone off by myself punctually620 AcrossReveal answer → Bodies of water620 AcrossReveal answer → Sweetheart421 AcrossReveal answer → Cap521 AcrossReveal answer → Is lonely only having left land421 AcrossReveal answer → Crippled823 AcrossReveal answer → A ribbon round the royal vessel824 AcrossReveal answer → Made good824 AcrossReveal answer → Live524 AcrossReveal answer → Were noisy as they formed the queue826 AcrossReveal answer → Rules for action826 AcrossReveal answer → Number327 AcrossReveal answer → Having courage, you say, is game428 AcrossReveal answer → Bludgeon428 AcrossReveal answer → Mysterious629 AcrossReveal answer → Moved Enid out to accommodate the child629 AcrossReveal answer → Tropical fruit731 AcrossReveal answer → Shock431 AcrossReveal answer → Very like the gentleman sorting the mail inside731 AcrossReveal answer → Outer833 AcrossReveal answer → Particularly doctors have to take a decrease934 AcrossReveal answer → Artificial lake934 AcrossReveal answer → Fasten334 AcrossReveal answer → Caribou435 AcrossReveal answer → Cushion336 AcrossReveal answer → Small crustacean936 AcrossReveal answer → Dirty work under cover of night?936 AcrossReveal answer → Consider437 AcrossReveal answer → Japanese art of flower arrangement738 AcrossReveal answer → Believe to be a regular visitor to our shores738 AcrossReveal answer → Soak with water639 AcrossReveal answer → In this case it's raining and everybody goes inside639 AcrossReveal answer → Italian wine440 AcrossReveal answer → The name on the hoarding440 AcrossReveal answer → Encourage with a ghostly presence?841 AcrossReveal answer → Wood-preservative841 AcrossReveal answer → They can turn gold into silver942 AcrossReveal answer → Copy exactly942 AcrossReveal answer →

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Animal eating any type of food81 DownReveal answer → Holding the ties by the top and bottom81 DownReveal answer → Slides smoothly over surface62 DownReveal answer → Want to reshuffle the side again62 DownReveal answer → Greedy42 DownReveal answer → Spectacles83 DownReveal answer → A kindly act that deserves our applause83 DownReveal answer → Ceremony43 DownReveal answer → Restricted84 DownReveal answer → Bear witness to64 DownReveal answer → Giving all one's attention to when camping out64 DownReveal answer → Intense45 DownReveal answer → Fail to have the desired effect85 DownReveal answer → Talk about expense vouchers?85 DownReveal answer → Flavour56 DownReveal answer → Carelessness106 DownReveal answer → Furious when someone's stamped on your toe?106 DownReveal answer → Fitting37 DownReveal answer → Invigorating77 DownReveal answer → Making a home in, with the scoundrel77 DownReveal answer → Respond58 DownReveal answer → Blue vat dye68 DownReveal answer → Shrinking from the old crone holding the box68 DownReveal answer → Returning home mad and in a daze711 DownReveal answer → Curt in manner711 DownReveal answer → Bordered512 DownReveal answer → Astound513 DownReveal answer → Fish314 DownReveal answer → Deserve515 DownReveal answer → African antelope616 DownReveal answer → The fool with the lollipop?616 DownReveal answer → Answer517 DownReveal answer → Useful518 DownReveal answer → Complete, as you say519 DownReveal answer → Iron519 DownReveal answer → Aged320 DownReveal answer → Abandoned820 DownReveal answer → It's not their turn either to go round320 DownReveal answer → Consumed522 DownReveal answer → Brown322 DownReveal answer → A seat to put in the sun522 DownReveal answer → He had held the arm that was injured623 DownReveal answer → Strong-smelling plant623 DownReveal answer → What the compilation of an instruction booklet is?1025 DownReveal answer → Coffee-maker1025 DownReveal answer → Penned525 DownReveal answer → Subsequently526 DownReveal answer → Baked food item326 DownReveal answer → Cross mother up326 DownReveal answer → Zodiac sign727 DownReveal answer → Getting the garment, I seem to have turned on the central heating727 DownReveal answer → Assist428 DownReveal answer → Poke429 DownReveal answer → Secure430 DownReveal answer → Shortened830 DownReveal answer → Grasp, too, that you approve of830 DownReveal answer → Early film projector831 DownReveal answer → Concealed from or shown to the public831 DownReveal answer → On balance, not so unable to stay still832 DownReveal answer → Untruth332 DownReveal answer → Sample832 DownReveal answer → Large servings of food - old stewed chops733 DownReveal answer → Originator733 DownReveal answer → Fortified wine635 DownReveal answer → The satin's spoiled by the marks635 DownReveal answer → Soak the leg due to be operated on636 DownReveal answer → Easily handled636 DownReveal answer → Is English permissible? Find out637 DownReveal answer → Depose637 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the Evening Standard crossword published on Friday, December 26, 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.