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Evening Standard Crossword January 24 2025 Answers

Friday puzzle · 135 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all the Evening Standard Crossword January 24 2025 answers. The Friday puzzle has 135 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#
ConcerningABOUT5Across3 Finding it impossible to become famousNOTABLE7Across8 CaretakerJANITOR7Across8 ArrogantCONCEITED9Across9 DelightPLEASE6Across9 Assuming to be no longer youngGETTINGON9Across9 GraveSOLEMN6Across10 PrecipitousSTEEP5Across11 DashELAN4Across12 Frightening a member of the hockey teamAWING5Across13 Indian languageHINDI5Across13 Period of darknessNIGHT5Across14 He gives you the signal, but you hesitateWAVER5Across14 ManageCOPE4Across15 Tense when you hand overPRESENT7Across15 Live togetherCOHABIT7Across15 Make it more bearable and fairerLIGHTEN7Across16 EatCONSUME7Across16 How bright the future sounds for her?ROSIE5Across17 Oily fruitOLIVE5Across17 PostponedDELAYED7Across17 A roll or just crumbs may be on it for the birdsTABLE5Across18 AlludeREFER5Across18 SpoilMAR3Across20 The fellow has me back in his clutches and he's evilDEMON5Across20 Unit of weightSTONE5Across20 WildRABID5Across21 His band has an organOLIVER6Across22 Very dirtyFILTHY6Across22 Scheduled to appear and construct, we're toldBILLED6Across23 PaceSTEP4Across23 PangTWINGE6Across23 Shone the light on a fellow, tied upFLASHED7Across25 SmileGRIN4Across25 ScornDISDAIN7Across25 Old-fashionedDATED5Across26 Annoying by listening to one's conversationBUGGING7Across27 WorshipIDOLISE7Across27 SkillART3Across28 Monarch's sonPRINCE6Across30 It's about mothers concealing their aspirationsDREAMS6Across30 SwelledDILATED7Across30 Academy AwardsOSCARS6Across31 Run, making a small footmarkSPRINT6Across31 Seem hazy about the time one picks up at the stationMEETS5Across32 Musical dramaOPERA5Across32 RindPEEL4Across33 InexpensiveCHEAP5Across35 Influenced, you say, by "Not manmade material"SUEDE5Across35 DreadfulDIRE4Across35 WeakFRAIL5Across36 BirdHERON5Across36 Go off when you overindulgeSPOIL5Across36 Notching another entry in one's record as a thief?NICKING7Across37 PlanetNEPTUNE7Across37 EpistleLETTER6Across38 And I cast the boy in the showALADDIN7Across39 Small betFLUTTER7Across39 HeavinessWEIGHT6Across39 IntendedMEANT5Across40 Refuse to let one in, which shows intelligenceBRAIN5Across41 BigLARGE5Across41 Went up in the air when the pupil erased the tapeLEAPT5Across42 Playground itemSWING5Across42 How the nightlight that found favour was spoken of?GLOWINGLY9Across43 RelevantPERTINENT9Across43 Follows us back into the superstructurePURSUES7Across44 IssueEDITION7Across44

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ClueAnswerLettersDirection#
Big gunCANNON6Down1 Fighting and giving a cry of pain in the arenaROWING6Down1 HasteSPEED5Down1 DerisionRIDICULE8Down2 Understood to have become entangled withCAUGHTON8Down2 DecorationMEDAL5Down2 ForgeryCOUNTERFEIT11Down3 With the hair-drying finished, is diminishingBLOWINGOVER11Down3 DonkeyASS3Down3 Two weeksFORTNIGHT9Down4 Unhappy that the shares are down in value?DEPRESSED9Down4 ImproveBETTER6Down4 EmployedUSED4Down5 Spikes of iceICICLES7Down5 Having filled to the brim, flew roundSTOPPED7Down5 SummitTOP3Down6 Orderly retreatWITHDRAWAL10Down6 It's the decolonisation that's upsettingUNSETTLING10Down6 BroomBESOM5Down7 Pavement edgeKERB4Down7 Angry enough, therefore, to take on againSORE4Down7 BuryINTER5Down8 Young birdsCHICKS6Down10 Is singing it, when all in, terrible?BALLAD6Down10 BaseIGNOBLE7Down11 Drove crazy, I had. Went too farOVERDID7Down11 Minister and an eschewer of alcohol to the lastATTEND6Down12 Deprive of foodSTARVE6Down12 EaseLEISURE7Down13 CalledNAMED5Down14 ArtistPAINTER7Down16 ChallengedDARED5Down18 ToupeeWIG3Down19 AdroitnessFINESSE7Down19 What remains of one's equilibriumBALANCE7Down19 Spread tales myself about the person from VallettaMALTESE7Down21 OpeningORIFICE7Down21 TerrorDREAD5Down22 Saying no more. Just filling in the little holesBUTTONINGUP11Down24 Miscellaneous itemsODDSANDENDS11Down24 EqualityPAR3Down24 BeheadDECAPITATE10Down26 Relax, Stew!SIMMERDOWN10Down26 RepudiateDISOWN6Down27 AttackerASSAILANT9Down28 Does it canoodle with its beak?SPOONBILL9Down28 AdministerAPPLY5Down28 Angry about the lies designed to deludeMISLEAD7Down29 IrritableTESTY5Down29 DuckMALLARD7Down29 Gloomy and sad, I'm about to reach the half centuryDISMAL6Down30 AppeasePACIFY6Down30 ColourTINGE5Down31 ReverseOPPOSITE8Down32 Greatly reduced? Definitely not!MUCHLESS8Down32 DemiseDEATH5Down32 Sees the said plots of groundSIGHTS6Down33 RequiteAVENGE6Down33 Because I, at an early age, was sillyASININE7Down34 PoolMERE4Down34 InsultAFFRONT7Down34 BorderHEM3Down36 EntrapNET3Down37 Supposes to have dropped in the picturesIMAGES6Down38 ConcordUNISON6Down38 A friend means everything, at the end of the dayALLY4Down40 Second-handUSED4Down40

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This page lists every clue and answer from the Evening Standard crossword published on Friday, January 24, 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.