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Evening Standard Crossword May 2 2025 Answers

Friday puzzle · 130 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 130 clues from the Evening Standard Crossword for May 2 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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Seraglio51 AcrossReveal answer → Corset65 AcrossReveal answer → Manufacturer58 AcrossReveal answer → However or wherever it's on display99 AcrossReveal answer → Lifeless99 AcrossReveal answer → Timer910 AcrossReveal answer → Abaft610 AcrossReveal answer → Thomas and Leo are brawling. It's horrible910 AcrossReveal answer → Press411 AcrossReveal answer → Shot back, mad412 AcrossReveal answer → Precipitation412 AcrossReveal answer → Part of blood613 AcrossReveal answer → Show yourself to be an equal, in oratory613 AcrossReveal answer → Ratify714 AcrossReveal answer → Obvious614 AcrossReveal answer → Big tots - they're twins714 AcrossReveal answer → Aired?915 AcrossReveal answer → Botched715 AcrossReveal answer → Roller coaster915 AcrossReveal answer → To begin with, had done wrong in having nagged at917 AcrossReveal answer → Witch917 AcrossReveal answer → Last stop the majority go to718 AcrossReveal answer → Beverage318 AcrossReveal answer → Abridge718 AcrossReveal answer → Snaps the twigs619 AcrossReveal answer → Sport619 AcrossReveal answer → Cover319 AcrossReveal answer → Just420 AcrossReveal answer → A card from the staff420 AcrossReveal answer → Cart421 AcrossReveal answer → Stress, on the trip back923 AcrossReveal answer → Not migratory923 AcrossReveal answer → Renovate523 AcrossReveal answer → Skin424 AcrossReveal answer → Wonder what the bear will do?925 AcrossReveal answer → Bird-frightener925 AcrossReveal answer → Get the impression it's an instinctive aptitude for426 AcrossReveal answer → Fronded plant426 AcrossReveal answer → Podgy627 AcrossReveal answer → Colour327 AcrossReveal answer → Stumbles back with one, in the clutches of booze!627 AcrossReveal answer → Costume729 AcrossReveal answer → Fish329 AcrossReveal answer → The British cheese assortment does appeal to one729 AcrossReveal answer → Dunce731 AcrossReveal answer → Offer632 AcrossReveal answer → Added to the silly scare that in the end I quashed932 AcrossReveal answer → Repugnant932 AcrossReveal answer → Season434 AcrossReveal answer → What the figurine's dress was carved from?934 AcrossReveal answer → Intermediary934 AcrossReveal answer → Simply635 AcrossReveal answer → Standing - honest735 AcrossReveal answer → Stress735 AcrossReveal answer → The whole network is with one again636 AcrossReveal answer → Jewellery item636 AcrossReveal answer → Notion437 AcrossReveal answer → From the City getting a call, call back437 AcrossReveal answer → Recovering938 AcrossReveal answer → Deposit538 AcrossReveal answer → So the three misbehaving are given a warning938 AcrossReveal answer → Large church939 AcrossReveal answer → Disturbed to find it's not fixed939 AcrossReveal answer → Daunt639 AcrossReveal answer → Bordered540 AcrossReveal answer →

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No dolly, she's the very personification of efficiency!81 DownReveal answer → Germs81 DownReveal answer → Yeast substitute122 DownReveal answer → Quite enjoyed being in jail?122 DownReveal answer → Donkey32 DownReveal answer → Aerobatic manoeuvre83 DownReveal answer → Want to cover the pair performing in body decorations83 DownReveal answer → Appear63 DownReveal answer → Hot spring64 DownReveal answer → Hang on - it will be contingent upon64 DownReveal answer → Spoil34 DownReveal answer → Grasp45 DownReveal answer → Killer85 DownReveal answer → Flares are set off by the house, in the open85 DownReveal answer → Rebelled66 DownReveal answer → In which the king crab set up residence?106 DownReveal answer → Musical instrument106 DownReveal answer → Coarse67 DownReveal answer → Pushes and hopes, but it's hard to get into77 DownReveal answer → Jumper and cardigan77 DownReveal answer → It's cold in winter, as one snuggles into the fur108 DownReveal answer → Torture device108 DownReveal answer → Hassock79 DownReveal answer → Stewed, is greasy511 DownReveal answer → Hackneyed511 DownReveal answer → Rodent312 DownReveal answer → Close413 DownReveal answer → He herded the animals right into the port616 DownReveal answer → Mean616 DownReveal answer → Impel416 DownReveal answer → Ate517 DownReveal answer → Plaything319 DownReveal answer → Book that woman!319 DownReveal answer → Inferred720 DownReveal answer → RAF officer1221 DownReveal answer → Give the shivers to, or don't affect at all1221 DownReveal answer → Abroad422 DownReveal answer → Antenna622 DownReveal answer → Picks up and drives, being very careful with622 DownReveal answer → Easy alternative1023 DownReveal answer → It's the degree of complexity that's the snag1023 DownReveal answer → Rotten624 DownReveal answer → Work-place adversaries1024 DownReveal answer → Versatile cricketer1024 DownReveal answer → Pigpen325 DownReveal answer → The day one took the exam325 DownReveal answer → Loaned425 DownReveal answer → Boredom626 DownReveal answer → Shut628 DownReveal answer → Nosy parker828 DownReveal answer → Restored to favour, it is thought, again828 DownReveal answer → Fluctuate829 DownReveal answer → Reinforce only the lock829 DownReveal answer → By hand830 DownReveal answer → Guided330 DownReveal answer → Wasn't tongue-tied, one argued830 DownReveal answer → The dogs start barking at the birds731 DownReveal answer → Aroused731 DownReveal answer → Sculpt the figure, taking pains about it533 DownReveal answer → Depend433 DownReveal answer → Group of nine533 DownReveal answer → Threat634 DownReveal answer → Begin with the E in "ale"634 DownReveal answer → Era336 DownReveal answer → Untruth337 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the Evening Standard crossword published on Friday, May 2, 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.