Evening Standard Crossword March 21 2025 Answers

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Below are all 132 clues from the Evening Standard Crossword for March 21 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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Tart41 AcrossReveal answer → Abrade34 AcrossReveal answer → Pit46 AcrossReveal answer → Cloth68 AcrossReveal answer → Leaves or eats the bit on the outside78 AcrossReveal answer → American mammal78 AcrossReveal answer → Signify69 AcrossReveal answer → Sets up as rival to a successful body-building business?99 AcrossReveal answer → Lawn-waterer99 AcrossReveal answer → Snoop310 AcrossReveal answer → Exult512 AcrossReveal answer → Jack will be a breeder513 AcrossReveal answer → Legal defence513 AcrossReveal answer → Ways to make money514 AcrossReveal answer → Traded514 AcrossReveal answer → Expiring514 AcrossReveal answer → Manage - to administer the anaesthetic to?715 AcrossReveal answer → Merit715 AcrossReveal answer → Cog515 AcrossReveal answer → Whaling spear716 AcrossReveal answer → Interrupt, but you start getting used to it716 AcrossReveal answer → Lustre517 AcrossReveal answer → Find one must take a right turn first517 AcrossReveal answer → Proportion518 AcrossReveal answer → Astute618 AcrossReveal answer → Give, as a tip, a ball-point518 AcrossReveal answer → Took a chance and within days are caught520 AcrossReveal answer → Assent620 AcrossReveal answer → Irritable, informally520 AcrossReveal answer → Sailing vessels622 AcrossReveal answer → A danger to the people ahead of one622 AcrossReveal answer → Maintenance623 AcrossReveal answer → Leaned over and told you what to bet on623 AcrossReveal answer → Object524 AcrossReveal answer → European country725 AcrossReveal answer → Said "A mere outward show," which does offend725 AcrossReveal answer → Swell526 AcrossReveal answer → Clearness727 AcrossReveal answer → That is among the various words meaning "hooligans"727 AcrossReveal answer → Wireless528 AcrossReveal answer → Maybe black marks, thanks to being caught in wrongdoing630 AcrossReveal answer → Unhappiness630 AcrossReveal answer → Network330 AcrossReveal answer → Passion631 AcrossReveal answer → Were all different, as a random drive round showed631 AcrossReveal answer → Catches "They ain't hadders!"532 AcrossReveal answer → Opinions532 AcrossReveal answer → Threefold632 AcrossReveal answer → Linger633 AcrossReveal answer → Sort434 AcrossReveal answer → Are too small to pick up535 AcrossReveal answer → Lariat535 AcrossReveal answer → Decay335 AcrossReveal answer → Is first to be locked in the big prison536 AcrossReveal answer → Legend436 AcrossReveal answer → Take in knowledge536 AcrossReveal answer → As soon as you see round, things are different737 AcrossReveal answer → Foreign nobleman737 AcrossReveal answer → Renovate and stash away again739 AcrossReveal answer → Light rain739 AcrossReveal answer → A retiring person of little intelligence; a loner541 AcrossReveal answer → Cut off541 AcrossReveal answer → Animal of which there are many in the pound542 AcrossReveal answer → Astound542 AcrossReveal answer → Amazed by the speculator and the awful greed943 AcrossReveal answer → Rash943 AcrossReveal answer → The bird has flown, you understand from her744 AcrossReveal answer → Jealous744 AcrossReveal answer →

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Sword61 DownReveal answer → Want Father Edward to come back at first61 DownReveal answer → Ill feeling82 DownReveal answer → Shot in the nude82 DownReveal answer → Creep52 DownReveal answer → Treacle113 DownReveal answer → Are ice-picks used to work in it?113 DownReveal answer → Veer73 DownReveal answer → Pasta94 DownReveal answer → Material wealth94 DownReveal answer → File44 DownReveal answer → Restrictive75 DownReveal answer → Corpse45 DownReveal answer → Zip up coats the salesman came back with75 DownReveal answer → Char56 DownReveal answer → Very tall building106 DownReveal answer → Top time for successful mountaineering expeditions?106 DownReveal answer → Blotched77 DownReveal answer → Expensive47 DownReveal answer → The name on the metal disc47 DownReveal answer → Suds610 DownReveal answer → Felt anti an all-night sitting?610 DownReveal answer → Furrow311 DownReveal answer → A beating by father hurt711 DownReveal answer → Analyse711 DownReveal answer → Brooded over when drunk612 DownReveal answer → Regain612 DownReveal answer → Fuel312 DownReveal answer → Pull313 DownReveal answer → Uneven316 DownReveal answer → Overact317 DownReveal answer → Playhouse719 DownReveal answer → Reduce the price of squash719 DownReveal answer → Arrogant719 DownReveal answer → Locks of hair721 DownReveal answer → Dog321 DownReveal answer → The notes you keep from721 DownReveal answer → Skull722 DownReveal answer → Self323 DownReveal answer → An electric blanket when you want central heating?1124 DownReveal answer → Shade of blue1124 DownReveal answer → Watch325 DownReveal answer → Blue-veined cheese1026 DownReveal answer → Pervade the whole of the rehearsal?1026 DownReveal answer → Semblance527 DownReveal answer → When unmasked, is brazen928 DownReveal answer → Strong attack928 DownReveal answer → Girl getting the first rise in a job729 DownReveal answer → Sluggish529 DownReveal answer → Conspire729 DownReveal answer → River-dam430 DownReveal answer → A really good note to end on. Great630 DownReveal answer → Tune630 DownReveal answer → Blemish431 DownReveal answer → Argues it's intended to be read832 DownReveal answer → Word-for-word832 DownReveal answer → Put the plastic cup beside the seat633 DownReveal answer → Sibling633 DownReveal answer → The fellow had got angry but concealed it734 DownReveal answer → Unlawful734 DownReveal answer → Planet638 DownReveal answer → Look! The strawberry roan is rearing!638 DownReveal answer → The locale, or spot, spoken of440 DownReveal answer → Golf club440 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the Evening Standard crossword published on Friday, March 21, 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.