Evening Standard Crossword May 17 2025 Answers

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Below are all 132 clues from the Evening Standard Crossword for May 17 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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Quoted52 AcrossReveal answer → Perch53 AcrossReveal answer → In chamber music, groups of more than ten?53 AcrossReveal answer → Spell57 AcrossReveal answer → Hesitate to be terribly rude about 'monsieur'58 AcrossReveal answer → Reimburse58 AcrossReveal answer → Truncheon58 AcrossReveal answer → Distribute by way of some reward?510 AcrossReveal answer → Conceals510 AcrossReveal answer → Higher510 AcrossReveal answer → Nothing311 AcrossReveal answer → Talk very freely in making a scene311 AcrossReveal answer → Summit312 AcrossReveal answer → Much repeated Middle Eastern ceremony512 AcrossReveal answer → Call on512 AcrossReveal answer → Cook keeps a change of coat at the workplace713 AcrossReveal answer → Terse713 AcrossReveal answer → Avoid513 AcrossReveal answer → Determined715 AcrossReveal answer → Titles515 AcrossReveal answer → Gets paid for being saner, somehow?515 AcrossReveal answer → Ebb617 AcrossReveal answer → Strong feeling of unfair exploitation318 AcrossReveal answer → Religious sister318 AcrossReveal answer → Violet and I doing wrong619 AcrossReveal answer → Because319 AcrossReveal answer → Term of office619 AcrossReveal answer → Pardoned720 AcrossReveal answer → Shooting stars721 AcrossReveal answer → Nice lad roaming the country721 AcrossReveal answer → Engage in commercially422 AcrossReveal answer → Calm a noted rough sea422 AcrossReveal answer → Swift423 AcrossReveal answer → Aperture423 AcrossReveal answer → Extra for Sir Thomas423 AcrossReveal answer → Injurious724 AcrossReveal answer → It's on the wing724 AcrossReveal answer → Beat425 AcrossReveal answer → Votes for a fat head of state626 AcrossReveal answer → One's professional life626 AcrossReveal answer → Connected726 AcrossReveal answer → Deserter of an art form329 AcrossReveal answer → Narrow brooch329 AcrossReveal answer → Males330 AcrossReveal answer → Discussion631 AcrossReveal answer → One who perseveres531 AcrossReveal answer → The rest of the night531 AcrossReveal answer → African country732 AcrossReveal answer → The chauvinistic one got into bed732 AcrossReveal answer → Prepare anew to fight back and finish them!534 AcrossReveal answer → Storm734 AcrossReveal answer → Automaton534 AcrossReveal answer → Have such recruits not been to the cookhouse?335 AcrossReveal answer → Rodent335 AcrossReveal answer → Daily woman?536 AcrossReveal answer → Film536 AcrossReveal answer → Be repulsive in a dance round the piano537 AcrossReveal answer → Of the Pope537 AcrossReveal answer → Animal537 AcrossReveal answer → Prose composition538 AcrossReveal answer → Big box of vital parts538 AcrossReveal answer → Tank338 AcrossReveal answer → Mistake539 AcrossReveal answer → Repulse540 AcrossReveal answer → Giver541 AcrossReveal answer → Number542 AcrossReveal answer →

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Trite51 DownReveal answer → Jostle51 DownReveal answer → Artist, for instance, in sad disarray51 DownReveal answer → Army officer72 DownReveal answer → Rough, maybe, and merely a cold thing72 DownReveal answer → Coarse52 DownReveal answer → Hinder63 DownReveal answer → Of the ear44 DownReveal answer → Watched44 DownReveal answer → Nominal contributor to a lorry crash44 DownReveal answer → Withdrew75 DownReveal answer → Doesn't possibly make port!65 DownReveal answer → Emits light65 DownReveal answer → Antic56 DownReveal answer → Very strong person56 DownReveal answer → Place dates in order56 DownReveal answer → Cut off57 DownReveal answer → Beseech to take in a living creature57 DownReveal answer → Facial twitch39 DownReveal answer → Seedcase39 DownReveal answer → Bit of a grimace from Jock, perhaps39 DownReveal answer → Declined711 DownReveal answer → Sour liquid712 DownReveal answer → In the garden, this work is of variable length712 DownReveal answer → Delete513 DownReveal answer → Performer514 DownReveal answer → Mineral with nothing about it?314 DownReveal answer → Pistachio, say314 DownReveal answer → Where there's little money in iron production?516 DownReveal answer → Wall painting516 DownReveal answer → Lettuce316 DownReveal answer → Being far from merry, possibly bores517 DownReveal answer → Chairs517 DownReveal answer → Stretch718 DownReveal answer → I'm going to an Italian club - as caretaker!719 DownReveal answer → Musical instrument719 DownReveal answer → As pets, has pekes in variety520 DownReveal answer → Decree520 DownReveal answer → Vision521 DownReveal answer → Publication for children?521 DownReveal answer → Native New Zealander521 DownReveal answer → Drive522 DownReveal answer → Drove to Rome, perhaps, and Land's End723 DownReveal answer → Burial or cremation723 DownReveal answer → Brave men624 DownReveal answer → Enticed724 DownReveal answer → Look for a bit of cheap fruit624 DownReveal answer → To tease doesn't take very much courage325 DownReveal answer → Flipper325 DownReveal answer → Archery missile527 DownReveal answer → Shelter327 DownReveal answer → Dolly's new surname527 DownReveal answer → Decipher628 DownReveal answer → Weird528 DownReveal answer → Virtue of being right during a bad time528 DownReveal answer → Spree529 DownReveal answer → Of birth530 DownReveal answer → Point to the container of water that's fresher530 DownReveal answer → Fizzy water432 DownReveal answer → Peer532 DownReveal answer → Husky food?432 DownReveal answer → For dancing, no violent beat is needed333 DownReveal answer → Singer533 DownReveal answer → Hiatus333 DownReveal answer → Chart335 DownReveal answer → Loyal436 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the Evening Standard crossword published on Saturday, May 17, 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.