Calm and collected when out of control?(4 letters)

Below is the answer to the crossword clue “Calm and collected when out of control?”, taken from the Evening Standard's Cryptic crossword on 9th December 2025.

The answer is

C O O L

4 letters · most recently seen on 9th December 2025

Other clues that solve to COOL

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.

#5 down Unfriendly, but not really heated (4) 15th July 2026
#23 across Calm (4) 21st April 2026
#13 across Calm (4) 1st April 2026
#4 down Calm and collected when out of control? (4) 9th December 2025
#22 across Pleasantly cold (4) 3rd November 2025
#17 across What to keep when out of control (4) 29th October 2025
#36 down Calm (4) 8th September 2025
#19 across Pleasantly cold (4) 16th June 2025
#40 down Being cheeky is considered great in America (4) 16th May 2025
#17 across Yet deserving warm approval? (4) 28th January 2025
#22 across Fairly cold (4) 3rd April 2024
#32 down Calmly collected (4) 4th September 2023
#23 across Self-possessed, albeit out of control (4) 21st December 2022
#5 down Unfriendly, but not really heated (4) 3rd June 2021
#23 across Calm (4) 27th January 2021
#13 across Calm (4) 12th October 2020
#23 across Calm (4) 8th July 2020
#4 down Calm and collected when out of control? (4) 6th July 2020
#40 down Being cheeky is considered great in America (4) 29th May 2020
#17 across What to keep when out of control (4) 7th May 2020
#22 across Pleasantly cold (4) 4th May 2020
#30 down Not very hot, but nevertheless approved of (4) 19th February 2020
#36 down Calm (4) 20th January 2020
#13 across Not so hot, perhaps, but OK (4) 24th October 2019
#7 down Pleasantly cold (4) 20th August 2019
#20 across Not friendly, though very nice to Americans (4) 8th March 2019
#17 across Yet deserving warm approval? (4) 1st November 2018
#22 across Fairly cold (4) 22nd January 2018

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#3 across Role player (5)
#5 down King never crowned, one imagines (6)
#6 down Truly it can be hard to say (5)
#7 down Philosophical about the calamitous cost when one is taken in (5)
#8 across Such charges can be dropped (5)
#9 down For each childless person (3)
#10 across When a teetotaler enters to make purchase, it's a sandwich (5)
#11 across The French love him (3)