Evening Standard Crossword December 29 2025 Answers

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Below are all 131 clues from the Evening Standard Crossword for December 29 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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Establish by law53 AcrossReveal answer → Showy53 AcrossReveal answer → Choose a new spelling for `ichamps^i53 AcrossReveal answer → A code some get wrong outright!58 AcrossReveal answer → Biblical prophet58 AcrossReveal answer → Thoroughfare69 AcrossReveal answer → Firearm510 AcrossReveal answer → Consuming610 AcrossReveal answer → Worry a fellow510 AcrossReveal answer → Cut short, left work311 AcrossReveal answer → Woman's long scarf311 AcrossReveal answer → Perfume511 AcrossReveal answer → Diana as a mythical nymph512 AcrossReveal answer → Thought412 AcrossReveal answer → Of the nose512 AcrossReveal answer → Feel disturbed when you see a chap robbed713 AcrossReveal answer → Gastronome713 AcrossReveal answer → Sapient415 AcrossReveal answer → Male voice515 AcrossReveal answer → Am all bent on backing the beast!515 AcrossReveal answer → Permission717 AcrossReveal answer → Hang heavily318 AcrossReveal answer → Female making a firm point318 AcrossReveal answer → Next to619 AcrossReveal answer → A pianist of importance?619 AcrossReveal answer → Expire320 AcrossReveal answer → Corpse721 AcrossReveal answer → Shy521 AcrossReveal answer → Bung very quietly into store, perhaps721 AcrossReveal answer → Cars can turn in them422 AcrossReveal answer → Nautical cry422 AcrossReveal answer → Fully expected to back us again423 AcrossReveal answer → Prison room423 AcrossReveal answer → So be it423 AcrossReveal answer → Excursionist coming a cropper?724 AcrossReveal answer → African country724 AcrossReveal answer → Entrance425 AcrossReveal answer → The news is bad for a porter626 AcrossReveal answer → Topics626 AcrossReveal answer → Symbol526 AcrossReveal answer → Fix328 AcrossReveal answer → Distant329 AcrossReveal answer → What the police had on his hair?329 AcrossReveal answer → Protection730 AcrossReveal answer → She's a bit of a siren, note531 AcrossReveal answer → Indian instrument531 AcrossReveal answer → Where the pleasure is only moderate?732 AcrossReveal answer → Destroy completely732 AcrossReveal answer → Revise433 AcrossReveal answer → Gain access to534 AcrossReveal answer → Something afoot when boats are wrecked534 AcrossReveal answer → It's cold, I see, at mid-September335 AcrossReveal answer → Caribou435 AcrossReveal answer → Merriment335 AcrossReveal answer → Start536 AcrossReveal answer → Nativity536 AcrossReveal answer → One of those pieces of eight?536 AcrossReveal answer → Sensational537 AcrossReveal answer → Wearers of tight trousers537 AcrossReveal answer → Celebrity, in short538 AcrossReveal answer → Their tread is endless538 AcrossReveal answer → Frank638 AcrossReveal answer → Alighted639 AcrossReveal answer → Drugged540 AcrossReveal answer →

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Automaton51 DownReveal answer → Fundamental51 DownReveal answer → Sweetie money?51 DownReveal answer → Gossip72 DownReveal answer → Views, maybe from space, of planets with no aircraft?72 DownReveal answer → Number52 DownReveal answer → Coach33 DownReveal answer → Undiluted44 DownReveal answer → Modern64 DownReveal answer → The nut in charge44 DownReveal answer → Remit45 DownReveal answer → He's after big things at sea65 DownReveal answer → Bomb hole65 DownReveal answer → Headgear36 DownReveal answer → Roof slabs56 DownReveal answer → Deplorably shifty about publicity56 DownReveal answer → Inflexible57 DownReveal answer → Deluge57 DownReveal answer → More than one could be produced in Madras57 DownReveal answer → Tally58 DownReveal answer → Former French coin39 DownReveal answer → Animal on toast?39 DownReveal answer → In Wales and elsewhere, various ways to get a drink712 DownReveal answer → Nullifies712 DownReveal answer → Gave713 DownReveal answer → A sound business letter314 DownReveal answer → Advantage514 DownReveal answer → Angry314 DownReveal answer → The Francophile's love?516 DownReveal answer → Boy's name516 DownReveal answer → Quiet716 DownReveal answer → Respond517 DownReveal answer → Changeless good spirit517 DownReveal answer → Weary518 DownReveal answer → Advantage719 DownReveal answer → Large319 DownReveal answer → Notice it's exclusive!719 DownReveal answer → Desires520 DownReveal answer → Moira confused an islander520 DownReveal answer → If you've vision, there's opportunity521 DownReveal answer → Celestial body521 DownReveal answer → Old-fashioned522 DownReveal answer → Cautious723 DownReveal answer → Greedy where flesh is involved?723 DownReveal answer → Agreement to try out a new blend of tea624 DownReveal answer → And not324 DownReveal answer → Tranquil624 DownReveal answer → One in a hole, at golf?325 DownReveal answer → Hiatus325 DownReveal answer → Irritate627 DownReveal answer → Conceals527 DownReveal answer → Standing proudly before the court527 DownReveal answer → Calm528 DownReveal answer → Sorcery528 DownReveal answer → Attack with a stone, possibly?528 DownReveal answer → Titan529 DownReveal answer → Fierce among fishes, that is!530 DownReveal answer → Soldier's jacket530 DownReveal answer → Poor531 DownReveal answer → Signal goodbye432 DownReveal answer → Wear532 DownReveal answer → Warning in advance?432 DownReveal answer → Card expert333 DownReveal answer → Belonging to us333 DownReveal answer → Swimming-pool434 DownReveal answer → Offer336 DownReveal answer → Owned337 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the Evening Standard crossword published on Monday, December 29, 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.