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Evening Standard Crossword September 5 2025 Answers

Friday puzzle · 131 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 131 clues from the Evening Standard Crossword for September 5 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
Javelin53 AcrossReveal answer → Roomy89 AcrossReveal answer → Guide69 AcrossReveal answer → Are within call when there's an allocation89 AcrossReveal answer → Discipline610 AcrossReveal answer → Announced, in addition, the figure310 AcrossReveal answer → Wildebeest310 AcrossReveal answer → Use, to get me back, a gambit611 AcrossReveal answer → Rubber611 AcrossReveal answer → Symbol511 AcrossReveal answer → Setbacks during the spells of batting?612 AcrossReveal answer → Detest612 AcrossReveal answer → Due412 AcrossReveal answer → Run down deliberately713 AcrossReveal answer → Conflagration713 AcrossReveal answer → Shoot across to get the tool414 AcrossReveal answer → Compass point414 AcrossReveal answer → Pushy1015 AcrossReveal answer → Did it and was removed forcibly1015 AcrossReveal answer → Yield415 AcrossReveal answer → Harmed717 AcrossReveal answer → From time to time, working or not817 AcrossReveal answer → Pleasant817 AcrossReveal answer → Pour a snort to give to the business partner718 AcrossReveal answer → Crisp fabric718 AcrossReveal answer → Depict as an attraction419 AcrossReveal answer → Cupid419 AcrossReveal answer → Sailor320 AcrossReveal answer → Serviette621 AcrossReveal answer → A number are surrounded by darting horse flies621 AcrossReveal answer → Quilt521 AcrossReveal answer → Rank423 AcrossReveal answer → Obscure1724 AcrossReveal answer → Insisting that you tell all again1724 AcrossReveal answer → Cunning425 AcrossReveal answer → Plunged526 AcrossReveal answer → The girl with whom I am going back home627 AcrossReveal answer → Period before Christmas627 AcrossReveal answer → Finish328 AcrossReveal answer → Make you long to go topless429 AcrossReveal answer → Weak429 AcrossReveal answer → Disperse730 AcrossReveal answer → The manner of the fellow has changed when I take over730 AcrossReveal answer → Large ape730 AcrossReveal answer → Cheer up when you mention the seaside833 AcrossReveal answer → Elderly433 AcrossReveal answer → Inappropriate name833 AcrossReveal answer → Border435 AcrossReveal answer → Does the unauthorised use of material mean there's a plot?1035 AcrossReveal answer → Maternity1035 AcrossReveal answer → Putting a number in an envelope saying "Authorship Unknown"436 AcrossReveal answer → Holy man536 AcrossReveal answer → Musical work436 AcrossReveal answer → It's always held back when jumpy737 AcrossReveal answer → Petty737 AcrossReveal answer → Legally responsible638 AcrossReveal answer → Free638 AcrossReveal answer → The combination could be, all round, very, very dangerous638 AcrossReveal answer → Bird639 AcrossReveal answer → Long540 AcrossReveal answer → Yearly640 AcrossReveal answer → It's hard to understand a clergyman's retiring in it640 AcrossReveal answer → Consume341 AcrossReveal answer → See as self-assertion341 AcrossReveal answer → Scandalous842 AcrossReveal answer → Guide to how old one is, cheapness of passage is842 AcrossReveal answer →

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Available, informally101 DownReveal answer → Just say what you have in mind101 DownReveal answer → Spate51 DownReveal answer → Improvised jazz singing42 DownReveal answer → He's responsible for her losing her head, I figure42 DownReveal answer → Seraglio52 DownReveal answer → English county83 DownReveal answer → Because you promise to give up83 DownReveal answer → Fixed33 DownReveal answer → Painkiller74 DownReveal answer → A post at headquarters74 DownReveal answer → Justified64 DownReveal answer → Top45 DownReveal answer → Argumentative115 DownReveal answer → Anticipate, as you try to find where the patient is115 DownReveal answer → Manage36 DownReveal answer → Possessions106 DownReveal answer → Appropriating your ideas, as you thought106 DownReveal answer → Animal57 DownReveal answer → Insect67 DownReveal answer → Giving water and shade to, was merciful with67 DownReveal answer → Absolute58 DownReveal answer → Finnish capital88 DownReveal answer → Expects, when one goes in search of88 DownReveal answer → Do, when there's a surprise development510 DownReveal answer → Social blunder510 DownReveal answer → Squandering713 DownReveal answer → Old-fashioned514 DownReveal answer → Continued with "The amount that wild deer consume"716 DownReveal answer → Football official716 DownReveal answer → Brave716 DownReveal answer → Cheated518 DownReveal answer → Beverage319 DownReveal answer → He's in telecommunications, all right520 DownReveal answer → Rule520 DownReveal answer → Petulant722 DownReveal answer → He's promised you a ticket722 DownReveal answer → Family522 DownReveal answer → Imperilled1123 DownReveal answer → Game in which a good-looker has the advantage1123 DownReveal answer → Bone324 DownReveal answer → In the end1025 DownReveal answer → Is he not the first to have scratched?1025 DownReveal answer → Road marking1026 DownReveal answer → Accepted the burden and became boss1026 DownReveal answer → Meal627 DownReveal answer → Keen528 DownReveal answer → Fat from meat828 DownReveal answer → Called in, dear, to straighten out and it's fixed828 DownReveal answer → Postpone529 DownReveal answer → Confuse531 DownReveal answer → Disregard831 DownReveal answer → Shocked by a muffled "It became boring"831 DownReveal answer → God532 DownReveal answer → Make use of732 DownReveal answer → In the teens, being on the move is great732 DownReveal answer → Look flushed and keep badgering on return634 DownReveal answer → Large meal, informally634 DownReveal answer → Tardy434 DownReveal answer → Damp535 DownReveal answer → Can drop the mechanic off and ring535 DownReveal answer → Agent336 DownReveal answer → Brown337 DownReveal answer → Enquires439 DownReveal answer → Go and spoil439 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the Evening Standard crossword published on Friday, September 5, 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.