Bad way to have organised a police department(6 letters)
Below is the answer to the crossword clue “Bad way to have organised a police department”, taken from the Evening Standard's Cryptic crossword on 18th December 2025.
The answer is
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D
Other clues that solve to RANCID
The same answer often re-appears with different clues over the years. Tap a clue to open its answer page, or the date to jump straight to that day's puzzle.
- #9 across Sour (6) 22nd September 2026
- #35 down A clear case for the can: crooked and bad (6) 4th September 2026
- #32 across Sour (6) 18th June 2026
- #6 down Stale (6) 16th February 2026
- #23 down Bad way to have organised a police department (6) 18th December 2025
- #8 across Rank, sour (6) 13th December 2025
- #20 across Smelling unpleasant, having got caught in the drain, somehow (6) 31st October 2025
- #6 down Managed to get detectives sour (6) 26th October 2025
- #23 down Rank or sour (6) 5th December 2024
- #3 down Rank or sour (6) 10th October 2024
- #10 down Caught in the drain, went off and it's bad (6) 6th September 2024
- #2 down Off (6) 27th August 2024
- #36 across Rank (6) 6th August 2024
- #3 down Rank, sour (6) 5th June 2024
- #34 down Caught in the drain, goes off and is sour-smelling (6) 15th December 2023
- #22 across Off one rushed, to the police (6) 8th December 2023
- #29 across Can move in free and that’s bad (6) 6th October 2023
- #22 across Stale (6) 15th September 2023
- #18 down Organised a police department in a bad way (6) 24th May 2023
- #2 down Sour (6) 16th May 2023
- #8 across Rank or sour (6) 19th April 2023
- #27 down Sour (6) 12th January 2023
- #16 down Sour (6) 4th November 2022
- #33 across Sour (6) 23rd September 2022
- #10 down Sour (6) 11th March 2022
- #38 across Sour (6) 4th January 2022
- #35 down A clear case for the can: crooked and bad (6) 27th August 2021
- #9 across Sour (6) 11th June 2021
- #32 across Sour (6) 28th January 2021
- #20 across Smelling unpleasant, having got caught in the drain, somehow (6) 23rd October 2020
- #6 down Stale (6) 22nd October 2020
- #8 across Rank, sour (6) 25th June 2020
- #6 down Managed to get detectives sour (6) 30th April 2020
- #32 across Sour (6) 8th November 2019
- #10 down Caught in the drain, went off and it’s bad (6) 27th September 2019
- #34 down Caught in the drain, goes off and is sour-smelling (6) 28th December 2018
- #22 across Off one rushed, to the police (6) 21st December 2018
- #29 across Can move in free and that’s bad (6) 26th October 2018
- #23 down Rank or sour (6) 28th August 2018
- #2 down Off (6) 10th July 2018
More clues from this puzzle
Other clues from the same Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on 18th December 2025. Tap Reveal to see an answer, or click the clue to open its own page.
- #1 across The typist's room naturally has a bar (5)
- #2 down Tore around during the afternoon, obviously not for ever! (3,3)
- #3 down Kind of track possibly followed by Ella (6)
- #4 down Finish up in Harpenden (3)
- #5 down Stop running a small business (5)
- #6 across Boringly regular procedure? (5)
- #6 down Finding the place strange, maybe reddens (7)
- #7 down Sleep on the snooker table? (4)
- #8 down Introductory denial, possibly (4-2)
- #9 across Available for purchase, but not at present (2,5)
- #10 across Loving to have a bit of fun, as discovered (5)