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Evening Standard Crossword October 17 2025 Answers

Friday puzzle · 128 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 128 clues from the Evening Standard Crossword for October 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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Spoken41 AcrossReveal answer → Top34 AcrossReveal answer → Veil46 AcrossReveal answer → Tissue-decaying disease89 AcrossReveal answer → Inclined39 AcrossReveal answer → Mull over and reckon to be not at home89 AcrossReveal answer → That's the fifteenth letter from France he's got310 AcrossReveal answer → Assure810 AcrossReveal answer → Unwell310 AcrossReveal answer → Only about half ripe, suddenly611 AcrossReveal answer → Genuine411 AcrossReveal answer → Actually611 AcrossReveal answer → Of course I would need to be trained in it612 AcrossReveal answer → Heavy food612 AcrossReveal answer → Movement of vehicles713 AcrossReveal answer → Report on again when you get back713 AcrossReveal answer → Fish from the highest point414 AcrossReveal answer → Star314 AcrossReveal answer → Rich soil mixture414 AcrossReveal answer → With which, up to no good, one tripped over the camp-stool?1015 AcrossReveal answer → Impartiality1015 AcrossReveal answer → Hue516 AcrossReveal answer → Bottle up the remainder of the water817 AcrossReveal answer → Odd-job-person817 AcrossReveal answer → Make more dense718 AcrossReveal answer → Remained when I left to wander off718 AcrossReveal answer → Open pastry419 AcrossReveal answer → She's some ballerina making a comeback419 AcrossReveal answer → Re-emerge819 AcrossReveal answer → Advantage521 AcrossReveal answer → Mould a raised design621 AcrossReveal answer → Make a Green, somehow, see red621 AcrossReveal answer → Gifted823 AcrossReveal answer → Having been told it was wrong to sit down?1724 AcrossReveal answer → Jane Austen novel1724 AcrossReveal answer → Blithe524 AcrossReveal answer → Shelter327 AcrossReveal answer → She's put in the wrong seat again627 AcrossReveal answer → Housefly larva627 AcrossReveal answer → Green vegetable429 AcrossReveal answer → Claim to have in one's possession429 AcrossReveal answer → Extremely tough fight to get a bronze730 AcrossReveal answer → Disease affecting livestock730 AcrossReveal answer → Small431 AcrossReveal answer → Idle833 AcrossReveal answer → Car light833 AcrossReveal answer → Very quick in giving me the rice to cook833 AcrossReveal answer → Beverage334 AcrossReveal answer → Sense435 AcrossReveal answer → Remain impassive when you shake your head1035 AcrossReveal answer → Robbers1035 AcrossReveal answer → Is going into the mountain due to bad visibility436 AcrossReveal answer → Fasten336 AcrossReveal answer → Coal mines436 AcrossReveal answer → Divide437 AcrossReveal answer → Can I mend the torn net? It is old737 AcrossReveal answer → Character in children's tale737 AcrossReveal answer → Withdraw statement638 AcrossReveal answer → It's good to give fish to the ill638 AcrossReveal answer → Wildlife tour640 AcrossReveal answer → Rush to fill up640 AcrossReveal answer → Untruth341 AcrossReveal answer → They're back numbers, child341 AcrossReveal answer → Embarrassed842 AcrossReveal answer → In which there are more likely to be donkeys than horses grazing!842 AcrossReveal answer →

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Always the same - having an excuse for not tipping101 DownReveal answer → Military vessel101 DownReveal answer → Grew old42 DownReveal answer → Give her some anemones to arrange42 DownReveal answer → Space42 DownReveal answer → Love song83 DownReveal answer → Make it small as opposed to thick83 DownReveal answer → Reside43 DownReveal answer → Long-haired person74 DownReveal answer → Began, you said, right in the middle74 DownReveal answer → Victory84 DownReveal answer → Excuse45 DownReveal answer → Tense movie115 DownReveal answer → Score with the cryptic clue for "tray"115 DownReveal answer → Month56 DownReveal answer → Larded, braised veal fillet106 DownReveal answer → People try to act in it106 DownReveal answer → Imitate37 DownReveal answer → Edible grain67 DownReveal answer → Outstrip when restored to health67 DownReveal answer → Booth58 DownReveal answer → Calendars88 DownReveal answer → Looking quickly through the so-and-so book?88 DownReveal answer → Left in charge of it, is permissible510 DownReveal answer → European country510 DownReveal answer → Stableman512 DownReveal answer → Fluctuate513 DownReveal answer → Spring314 DownReveal answer → Of noses515 DownReveal answer → Sailing technique716 DownReveal answer → It gives the pedigree one row at a time716 DownReveal answer → Diminish517 DownReveal answer → Escape518 DownReveal answer → Temporary drop in quality520 DownReveal answer → See California not as a visitor to it520 DownReveal answer → Demote820 DownReveal answer → Golf-peg322 DownReveal answer → Proceeds to give the answers722 DownReveal answer → England, commonly722 DownReveal answer → Should that be so, where is it packed?1123 DownReveal answer → Hard to upset1123 DownReveal answer → You, my love, are playing against the German1025 DownReveal answer → Chosen525 DownReveal answer → Mercy killing1025 DownReveal answer → Be nice and don't thump the cards down on the table!1026 DownReveal answer → Kingly526 DownReveal answer → Great happiness1026 DownReveal answer → Table428 DownReveal answer → Yes, figure protecting it makes sense828 DownReveal answer → New Yorker, for example828 DownReveal answer → Pace429 DownReveal answer → Finished430 DownReveal answer → Fix and clean, with difficulty, the spire831 DownReveal answer → Factual film831 DownReveal answer → Born332 DownReveal answer → Worry greatly732 DownReveal answer → Vain, too; out to get applause732 DownReveal answer → Consternation634 DownReveal answer → The whole ten are mad with anger634 DownReveal answer → About military intelligence, is naive535 DownReveal answer → Barrier of shrubs535 DownReveal answer → Cloak439 DownReveal answer → Set by the boy to trap one439 DownReveal answer →

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