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Evening Standard Crossword October 24 2025 Answers

Friday puzzle · 132 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 132 clues from the Evening Standard Crossword for October 24 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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ClueLetters#Answer
Shatter52 AcrossReveal answer → Hurry57 AcrossReveal answer → Soar58 AcrossReveal answer → Therefore, for assault could be incarcerated again99 AcrossReveal answer → Something temporary99 AcrossReveal answer → Caper510 AcrossReveal answer → Sea-bathing, mostly910 AcrossReveal answer → Kissing plant?910 AcrossReveal answer → The fifth or sixth letter in "knowledge"412 AcrossReveal answer → And not312 AcrossReveal answer → Base of neck412 AcrossReveal answer → Is, alas, preparing to attack613 AcrossReveal answer → Vision613 AcrossReveal answer → Map513 AcrossReveal answer → Raise714 AcrossReveal answer → Raze the apartment between nine and eleven714 AcrossReveal answer → The one served by the butter-fingered waitress in the tea-room?915 AcrossReveal answer → Gamble715 AcrossReveal answer → Affliction of the eyes915 AcrossReveal answer → A large hall for study and lessons917 AcrossReveal answer → Disclose617 AcrossReveal answer → Discouraging weapon917 AcrossReveal answer → Ring through at a quarter past from work718 AcrossReveal answer → Intellectual718 AcrossReveal answer → Self-effacing619 AcrossReveal answer → The guard with the money got shot619 AcrossReveal answer → Born319 AcrossReveal answer → Noisiest720 AcrossReveal answer → Long-eared mammal420 AcrossReveal answer → Long to take one round the hotel420 AcrossReveal answer → An early lead!923 AcrossReveal answer → Excursion423 AcrossReveal answer → Very hot923 AcrossReveal answer → Person who disagrees925 AcrossReveal answer → Takes care of, when one ushers the sailor to the door925 AcrossReveal answer → Loyal425 AcrossReveal answer → Green vegetable426 AcrossReveal answer → Until by myself with a book426 AcrossReveal answer → Merciful726 AcrossReveal answer → Gloomy when the half moon came up627 AcrossReveal answer → Scold harshly627 AcrossReveal answer → Not present729 AcrossReveal answer → Measure the hair in need of cutting?729 AcrossReveal answer → Twitching330 AcrossReveal answer → Simpler631 AcrossReveal answer → Military wear is the antithesis of a baby's bonnet!932 AcrossReveal answer → Relative significance932 AcrossReveal answer → Uniform734 AcrossReveal answer → A battle we need to fight934 AcrossReveal answer → Artificial sweetener934 AcrossReveal answer → Team sport735 AcrossReveal answer → Go on, lad. Push out the boat735 AcrossReveal answer → Fixed goal636 AcrossReveal answer → The papers he puts into groups636 AcrossReveal answer → Famous person437 AcrossReveal answer → The lady and the space man who's so intrepid437 AcrossReveal answer → Of kidneys537 AcrossReveal answer → Did it enable gold prospectors to see in the dark?938 AcrossReveal answer → Economic oppressor938 AcrossReveal answer → Prohibit338 AcrossReveal answer → Does, stupidly, clown about and you suspend activities939 AcrossReveal answer → Huge539 AcrossReveal answer → Attractive person939 AcrossReveal answer → Inflexible540 AcrossReveal answer → Bordered541 AcrossReveal answer → Irritable542 AcrossReveal answer →

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Open to suggestion81 DownReveal answer → Swim51 DownReveal answer → When I floated off, didn't81 DownReveal answer → Children's plaything122 DownReveal answer → "Between blonde and mouse" is not a bad description122 DownReveal answer → Gaze52 DownReveal answer → Bonus83 DownReveal answer → Was better than the other polishes?83 DownReveal answer → Of mind63 DownReveal answer → Dirty44 DownReveal answer → Unclaimed animals64 DownReveal answer → The way to overcome a foolish fear is to attack it64 DownReveal answer → Competition75 DownReveal answer → Deeply fixed85 DownReveal answer → Container nanny can't have?85 DownReveal answer → Blithe56 DownReveal answer → Lung disease106 DownReveal answer → Does she wield the big stick over malingerers?106 DownReveal answer → Branch of mathematics77 DownReveal answer → On return, Rose Brown got through to the politician77 DownReveal answer → Regardless of which contest one's competing in?108 DownReveal answer → Bitterness108 DownReveal answer → Sorrow39 DownReveal answer → A commotion that gets you up511 DownReveal answer → Slight remainder511 DownReveal answer → Forgive711 DownReveal answer → Hamper513 DownReveal answer → Use514 DownReveal answer → For rises, still holds good616 DownReveal answer → Golf-peg316 DownReveal answer → Make very wet616 DownReveal answer → Reasonable718 DownReveal answer → Crockery item319 DownReveal answer → The gentleman who took part in the uprising319 DownReveal answer → Coach521 DownReveal answer → Pretty appealing to a child, it is!1221 DownReveal answer → Improvement1221 DownReveal answer → Tawdry art622 DownReveal answer → Silly rot! A man about to become a mother!622 DownReveal answer → Gem522 DownReveal answer → Amphibian1023 DownReveal answer → Reduce the amount in order to create an impression1023 DownReveal answer → Unfair state1024 DownReveal answer → Got loaded and became bossy1024 DownReveal answer → Flower724 DownReveal answer → Female deer325 DownReveal answer → A small male or a female325 DownReveal answer → Nothing327 DownReveal answer → Objective628 DownReveal answer → Opening828 DownReveal answer → Be against including it or just the converse828 DownReveal answer → Cutting tools829 DownReveal answer → Liability529 DownReveal answer → What made the newlyweds so unhappy in the front seats?829 DownReveal answer → Create830 DownReveal answer → Cajole in order to circumvent?830 DownReveal answer → Deny knowledge of731 DownReveal answer → Mean to force Nigel to admit the old boy731 DownReveal answer → Shabby532 DownReveal answer → Surrounds the arenas533 DownReveal answer → Keen533 DownReveal answer → Bizarre costume533 DownReveal answer → Long step634 DownReveal answer → Something you pull with difficulty from the tool bag?634 DownReveal answer → Silence335 DownReveal answer → Unusual436 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the Evening Standard crossword published on Friday, October 24, 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.