Evening Standard Crossword May 9 2025 Answers

Friday puzzle · 136 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 136 clues from the Evening Standard Crossword for May 9 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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Member of the clergy54 AcrossReveal answer → Astounded67 AcrossReveal answer → Guided39 AcrossReveal answer → Make obscure99 AcrossReveal answer → Issue more than the others - the maximum99 AcrossReveal answer → Through310 AcrossReveal answer → The answer is to have a liquid mixture810 AcrossReveal answer → Malicious810 AcrossReveal answer → Wash out512 AcrossReveal answer → Achieve the correct balance with the ornamentation412 AcrossReveal answer → Precipitation412 AcrossReveal answer → Irritation413 AcrossReveal answer → No mere mortal, I guess613 AcrossReveal answer → Cake613 AcrossReveal answer → Long-necked animal714 AcrossReveal answer → Will lay on drink, you think714 AcrossReveal answer → Playwright915 AcrossReveal answer → Weird515 AcrossReveal answer → Commits an error in writing the clue for 'odes'915 AcrossReveal answer → Little by little917 AcrossReveal answer → Funeral-car617 AcrossReveal answer → Was a welsher - a shortcoming, indeed917 AcrossReveal answer → Rapturous delight718 AcrossReveal answer → Spots an insect crawling round the hole718 AcrossReveal answer → Repulsive419 AcrossReveal answer → Very keen to get the other flighty daughter into620 AcrossReveal answer → Nakedness620 AcrossReveal answer → Crawl520 AcrossReveal answer → He's come back with a fresh egg421 AcrossReveal answer → Prayer ending421 AcrossReveal answer → Rotter322 AcrossReveal answer → Hasn't it yet learned to steer clear of insect spray?824 AcrossReveal answer → Polluted724 AcrossReveal answer → Defeated decisively824 AcrossReveal answer → Bought back and restored oneself to favour826 AcrossReveal answer → European country826 AcrossReveal answer → Lair327 AcrossReveal answer → So after all is left unfinished, too428 AcrossReveal answer → Italian capital428 AcrossReveal answer → Smallest528 AcrossReveal answer → Wonder629 AcrossReveal answer → Going back, see the trainee's mistake629 AcrossReveal answer → Shade of red731 AcrossReveal answer → Is fast finding what all the study was for731 AcrossReveal answer → Composition431 AcrossReveal answer → Confused633 AcrossReveal answer → Very sad he ruined the roast again934 AcrossReveal answer → Absolute rulers934 AcrossReveal answer → Irrigate535 AcrossReveal answer → A dash just before take-off936 AcrossReveal answer → Pedestrian936 AcrossReveal answer → Method437 AcrossReveal answer → Card game738 AcrossReveal answer → 'Lacks stability,' they add738 AcrossReveal answer → Beneath538 AcrossReveal answer → Cur339 AcrossReveal answer → Narcotic639 AcrossReveal answer → With which to pay the minder?639 AcrossReveal answer → Celebrity440 AcrossReveal answer → Story Sally was given specially to break440 AcrossReveal answer → Deed341 AcrossReveal answer → Sample841 AcrossReveal answer → Only commenting on briefly, but it's poignant841 AcrossReveal answer → Obvious642 AcrossReveal answer → A difficult task for High Command942 AcrossReveal answer → Conjugal942 AcrossReveal answer → Demise543 AcrossReveal answer →

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Interrupted only when I tend to digress81 DownReveal answer → Oatmeal dish81 DownReveal answer → Enthusiast61 DownReveal answer → Continent62 DownReveal answer → Go out when you light up62 DownReveal answer → Awkward62 DownReveal answer → Disaster83 DownReveal answer → Do get involved in some game83 DownReveal answer → Vitality33 DownReveal answer → Choose64 DownReveal answer → Fairy44 DownReveal answer → Pearls are round, by the way64 DownReveal answer → Farewell55 DownReveal answer → Appeased85 DownReveal answer → Went up and roughly cased all round, you conclude85 DownReveal answer → Circus MC106 DownReveal answer → Heavy rain accompanied by lightning?106 DownReveal answer → Uneasy86 DownReveal answer → Weepy77 DownReveal answer → Doesn't retire and creates a logjam77 DownReveal answer → Managed to leave when it became known68 DownReveal answer → Caribou48 DownReveal answer → Carry out68 DownReveal answer → First the raging gale drowned the noise711 DownReveal answer → Depending711 DownReveal answer → Revoked911 DownReveal answer → Respect414 DownReveal answer → Counting frame616 DownReveal answer → Genuine416 DownReveal answer → Like a really bad oil lamp?616 DownReveal answer → Imitated418 DownReveal answer → Antitoxin519 DownReveal answer → Spoils the acts519 DownReveal answer → He's a catch320 DownReveal answer → Show assent320 DownReveal answer → Reply821 DownReveal answer → Wherewithal522 DownReveal answer → Question the female we apprehended522 DownReveal answer → Dale423 DownReveal answer → Completely ineffective623 DownReveal answer → Finds out that money constitutes a snare623 DownReveal answer → Heraldic insignia1025 DownReveal answer → Show yourself to have a heart, perhaps, and emulate1025 DownReveal answer → Stunt425 DownReveal answer → Friend326 DownReveal answer → Knock back the usual326 DownReveal answer → Consider426 DownReveal answer → Foretell727 DownReveal answer → Carrying the spray (mace) and a knife727 DownReveal answer → Worshipped629 DownReveal answer → Nobleman830 DownReveal answer → Pact630 DownReveal answer → Standing outside The Goat's Head, Peter is worried830 DownReveal answer → Invariable831 DownReveal answer → Keeps it a secret from the firm and freelances831 DownReveal answer → Perspire532 DownReveal answer → Nares832 DownReveal answer → A job you are safe and at home in?832 DownReveal answer → Eke out the bit of porridge733 DownReveal answer → Clerical vestment733 DownReveal answer → Fall434 DownReveal answer → Fighting to get something done635 DownReveal answer → Awning635 DownReveal answer → Monarch's son636 DownReveal answer → A little flash636 DownReveal answer → Cunning436 DownReveal answer → To hinder from grasping power, I deem wrong637 DownReveal answer → Get637 DownReveal answer → Breach340 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the Evening Standard crossword published on Friday, May 9, 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.