Evening Standard Crossword January 8 2025 Answers

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Below are all 132 clues from the Evening Standard Crossword for January 8 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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Short saying53 AcrossReveal answer → In Formula One, he was in favour of finishing fast53 AcrossReveal answer → Den54 AcrossReveal answer → Talented67 AcrossReveal answer → In Birmingham, a street ahead58 AcrossReveal answer → Striped animal58 AcrossReveal answer → Because39 AcrossReveal answer → Golf-peg310 AcrossReveal answer → Nun's costume510 AcrossReveal answer → A dirty globe?510 AcrossReveal answer → Teacher is backward at any one of the three Rs!311 AcrossReveal answer → Arrest311 AcrossReveal answer → Having half a mind service has been cut, he won't pay512 AcrossReveal answer → Contract512 AcrossReveal answer → Boy's name512 AcrossReveal answer → Sinful413 AcrossReveal answer → Such clothing fits Una badly713 AcrossReveal answer → Health-check713 AcrossReveal answer → A pie's possibly a nice warm colour515 AcrossReveal answer → Skinflint515 AcrossReveal answer → Pale515 AcrossReveal answer → Rough617 AcrossReveal answer → Tommy's tosh?318 AcrossReveal answer → Unit of weight318 AcrossReveal answer → The hard facts one may get back to619 AcrossReveal answer → Rush419 AcrossReveal answer → Next to619 AcrossReveal answer → Giant520 AcrossReveal answer → Infers721 AcrossReveal answer → A land we reunited in Anglo-Saxon England721 AcrossReveal answer → German man422 AcrossReveal answer → Light, first-class railway422 AcrossReveal answer → Consume322 AcrossReveal answer → Did Leander love to give her a ring?423 AcrossReveal answer → Association of countries423 AcrossReveal answer → Bother724 AcrossReveal answer → Wander724 AcrossReveal answer → Fatherly musical celebrity?724 AcrossReveal answer → Fish hawk626 AcrossReveal answer → Stake about everything in a stage production626 AcrossReveal answer → Intelligence327 AcrossReveal answer → Poor528 AcrossReveal answer → Body of water329 AcrossReveal answer → That woman absorbed in motherhood329 AcrossReveal answer → It makes an admission531 AcrossReveal answer → Lustre531 AcrossReveal answer → Roster431 AcrossReveal answer → Space for manoeuvre in a ship's cabin?732 AcrossReveal answer → Sport732 AcrossReveal answer → Slimmed633 AcrossReveal answer → Merges534 AcrossReveal answer → A hero, but to many a libertine534 AcrossReveal answer → Sick of villainy and pillage335 AcrossReveal answer → Offer335 AcrossReveal answer → Best535 AcrossReveal answer → Allow to pass to leg, perhaps536 AcrossReveal answer → Purchaser536 AcrossReveal answer → In betting, a borderline thing?537 AcrossReveal answer → Asian republic537 AcrossReveal answer → Face437 AcrossReveal answer → Same538 AcrossReveal answer → Prepared538 AcrossReveal answer → Oldster led astray by a bit of a youngster?538 AcrossReveal answer → Cover339 AcrossReveal answer → Scull341 AcrossReveal answer → Bullfighter642 AcrossReveal answer → Learnt543 AcrossReveal answer →

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Children may be the outcome51 DownReveal answer → Belief51 DownReveal answer → Take61 DownReveal answer → Depict badly in ropy art72 DownReveal answer → Referee72 DownReveal answer → Portray62 DownReveal answer → Obtain33 DownReveal answer → Precious stone44 DownReveal answer → Only44 DownReveal answer → I ran out in the wet44 DownReveal answer → Tendency55 DownReveal answer → Topics65 DownReveal answer → You'll observe, now and then, that it balances65 DownReveal answer → Abandoned86 DownReveal answer → Plants grown by sailors out East?56 DownReveal answer → Fertile spot56 DownReveal answer → One philosophical about the cost of straying out of line?57 DownReveal answer → Weary57 DownReveal answer → Breed48 DownReveal answer → Wicked39 DownReveal answer → Briefly, it's positively assertive39 DownReveal answer → Vital911 DownReveal answer → Sailor meaning a great deal to his friend712 DownReveal answer → First month712 DownReveal answer → Fish314 DownReveal answer → Soil414 DownReveal answer → A little matter one gets ahead with314 DownReveal answer → Leader416 DownReveal answer → A paid player516 DownReveal answer → Edge along516 DownReveal answer → First lady to be seated, in a sense517 DownReveal answer → Respond517 DownReveal answer → Afresh418 DownReveal answer → Wailing woman has been confused719 DownReveal answer → Confuses719 DownReveal answer → Two bachelors, one Disney character520 DownReveal answer → Utter confusion520 DownReveal answer → Soldiers may find it boring521 DownReveal answer → Rude821 DownReveal answer → Hang521 DownReveal answer → Canvas shelter423 DownReveal answer → Idle chatter723 DownReveal answer → Just the aircraft to worry the enemy723 DownReveal answer → Something filling you can get at the station624 DownReveal answer → Term of office624 DownReveal answer → Assistant425 DownReveal answer → Dried leaves325 DownReveal answer → Wager325 DownReveal answer → Rush426 DownReveal answer → Strong resentment of a bit of a clanger527 DownReveal answer → Holler527 DownReveal answer → Left on the side of a shelf528 DownReveal answer → Allude528 DownReveal answer → Revised629 DownReveal answer → Colour630 DownReveal answer → Senior530 DownReveal answer → Victor taking a girl on the river530 DownReveal answer → Performer532 DownReveal answer → Where to get some whisky, etc.432 DownReveal answer → Require432 DownReveal answer → New opposition333 DownReveal answer → Intention333 DownReveal answer → Discharge434 DownReveal answer → Thoroughfare436 DownReveal answer → Cur340 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the Evening Standard crossword published on Wednesday, January 8, 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.