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Evening Standard Crossword January 22 2025 Answers

Wednesday puzzle · 132 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all the Evening Standard Crossword January 22 2025 answers. The Wednesday puzzle has 132 clues; every answer has been verified. Click any clue to see every answer it has ever had, across every publisher in our database.

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ClueAnswerLettersDirection#
Work doughKNEAD5Across3 A mine rediscovered in a Welsh straitMENAI5Across3 EludeEVADE5Across4 SurplusEXCESS6Across7 Girl to do wrong with, in a delugeFLOOD5Across8 Belong, conformFITIN5Across8 EpochERA3Across9 ScuttleHOD3Across10 Boy's nameBILLY5Across10 Is such a coat dressy?FROCK5Across10 Intend to go first class to MaidenheadAIM3Across11 TupRAM3Across11 Got together again for just so longMETRE5Across12 ElbowNUDGE5Across12 PersonHUMAN5Across12 LabourTOIL4Across13 He's a bit freakish in his wild wayWILFRED7Across13 Book of wordsLEXICON7Across13 Powerless to revise the rent for oneINERT5Across15 Provide foodCATER5Across15 FlatLEVEL5Across15 SuitBECOME6Across17 A traffic stopper in the road around central HarlesdenRED3Across18 ToddlerTOT3Across18 Pictures, I see, from the sciencesSCENES6Across19 SnareTRAP4Across19 UproarFURORE6Across19 EncourageCHEER5Across20 Ties upTETHERS7Across21 The same again, and not so much of it!REPLICA7Across21 Female servantMAID4Across22 Plunder from Waterloo terminusLOOT4Across22 FinishEND3Across22 What a chap might call an expensive womanDEAR4Across23 ActionDEED4Across23 Harmful, vindictiveBALEFUL7Across24 RevolvedROTATED7Across24 Smothered with water?DROWNED7Across24 Raid, incursionINROAD6Across26 Stiffeners for bald-headed peopleBRACES6Across26 EnclosurePEN3Across27 Wear awayERODE5Across28 SpeckDOT3Across29 Highball!LOB3Across29 One's personal spaceSINUS5Across31 Gain knowledgeLEARN5Across31 BirdKIWI4Across31 Cause of rash effects in bed?NETTLES7Across32 SkylineHORIZON7Across32 WanderedROAMED6Across33 FactDATUM5Across34 Very formal but not BlimpishRIGID5Across34 Arboreal monarchOAK3Across35 FlipperFIN3Across35 ObjectDEMUR5Across35 Traditionally the fare for an identical triplet?CHEER5Across36 Girl's nameHELEN5Across36 Exhorted the rude to reform and be good heartedURGED5Across37 StudentPUPIL5Across37 DesireWISH4Across37 SwiftRAPID5Across38 Coarse filesRASPS5Across38 Adorns parts of vesselsDECKS5Across38 TearRIP3Across39 QueerODD3Across41 FloodDELUGE6Across42 TrivialPETTY5Across43

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ClueAnswerLettersDirection#
Blare loudly at a politicianBLAIR5Down1 Warning deviceSIREN5Down1 FeverishHECTIC6Down1 Such cakes are black but not burntPOMFRET7Down2 Having restrictionsLIMITED7Down2 WriterSCRIBE6Down2 TreeASH3Down3 Naming wordNOUN4Down4 Sea-eagleERNE4Down4 Regarded as rich after one short dayEYED4Down4 CellarVAULT5Down5 Counting frameABACUS6Down5 A fair touring around, note, covers a lot of ground!AFRICA6Down5 DemeanedDEGRADED8Down6 I, a Frenchman, get the girlIRENE5Down6 Iraqi currencyDINAR5Down6 Success at twenty?SCORE5Down7 ChangeALTER5Down7 UnaccompaniedSOLO4Down8 LevyTAX3Down9 What the poilu has to put on his hairOIL3Down9 BehaviourDEMEANOUR9Down11 Average sized Scandinavian fruits?MEDLARS7Down12 Excitable personHOTHEAD7Down12 CribCOT3Down14 OgleLEER4Down14 Fireplace seller?REP3Down14 OpeningVENT4Down16 What the last man did?ENDED5Down16 Drying clothTOWEL5Down16 Majestically, they could have been starsTSARS5Down17 PreparedREADY5Down17 HarvestCROP4Down18 Frowned when a beastly female entered the vehicleSCOWLED7Down19 LibertyFREEDOM7Down19 For batters, they can come in pairsBLOBS5Down20 Electronic messageEMAIL5Down20 Norma's terrible ItalianROMAN5Down21 WaverHESITATE8Down21 Jewelled headdressTIARA5Down21 ConsiderDEEM4Down23 Having a sense of dutyDUTIFUL7Down23 They've been given credit for maybe extravagant thingsDEBTORS7Down23 Urge to chuck teacher into the riverDESIRE6Down24 FruitBANANA6Down24 PeriodTERM4Down25 Having no central heating is negativeNOT3Down25 In favour ofFOR3Down25 SketchedDREW4Down26 Never the left sockRIGHT5Down27 At no timeNEVER5Down27 Corrected in crude styleCURED5Down28 CommandORDER5Down28 HatefulODIOUS6Down29 ResoundedECHOED6Down30 Pick-me-upTONIC5Down30 Dogs said to interest mountaineersPEKES5Down30 FoolIDIOT5Down32 Old devil at the police stationNICK4Down32 Camel's protuberanceHUMP4Down32 Having left at some stage, he may be back in jugLAG3Down33 Fastening deviceZIP3Down33 ParchedARID4Down34 WhirlpoolEDDY4Down36 FavouritePET3Down40

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This page lists every clue and answer from the Evening Standard crossword published on Wednesday, January 22, 2025. Answers are checked against the completed grid before publishing. 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.