Fairy showing malice outright!(6 letters)

Below is the answer to the crossword clue “Fairy showing malice outright!”, taken from the Evening Standard's Cryptic crossword on 30th December 2025.

The answer is

S P R I T E

6 letters · most recently seen on 30th December 2025

Other clues that solve to SPRITE

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.

#4 across Elflike priest, possibly? (6) 20th May 2026
#10 across Elf (6) 16th February 2026
#3 down Fairy showing malice outright! (6) 30th December 2025
#24 down Tripe's processed by an elflike creature (6) 29th May 2025
#4 across Elfin creature (6) 17th December 2024
#8 across Elfin creature (6) 5th November 2024
#19 across Elflike creature elusively taking trips East (6) 22nd August 2024
#19 across Irregular stripe in computer graphics (6) 1st August 2024
#11 across Priest, possibly, a small dainty person (6) 13th May 2024
#22 down Sylphlike creature able to hearten tipsters (6) 25th April 2024
#11 across Priest's moving spirit? (6) 30th January 2024
#11 across Elfin creature (6) 30th January 2024
#11 across Elfin creature (6) 27th September 2023
#18 across Elf having a moving effect on a priest (6) 1st May 2023
#18 across Spirit needed for a rambling trip in the south-east (6) 14th February 2023
#24 down Elf (6) 12th October 2022
#28 down Elf (6) 9th June 2022
#24 down Elf (6) 4th May 2022
#3 down Is nimble and dainty, yet trips clumsily at one point (6) 1st February 2022
#3 down The spirit a priest could show (6) 31st August 2021
#4 across Elf-like priest, possibly? (6) 11th March 2021
#10 across Elf (6) 11th August 2020
#3 down Fairy showing malice outright! (6) 4th August 2020
#11 across Elflike arranger of trips to Mile End (6) 12th June 2019
#24 down Tripe's processed by an elflike creature (6) 18th February 2019
#4 across Elfin creature (6) 6th September 2018
#8 across Elfin creature (6) 26th July 2018
#19 across Elflike creature elusively taking trips East (6) 4th June 2018
#19 across Irregular stripe in computer graphics (6) 14th May 2018
#11 across Priest, possibly, a small dainty person (6) 7th March 2018
#22 down Sylphlike creature able to hearten tipsters (6) 20th February 2018

More clues from this puzzle

Other clues from the same Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on 30th December 2025. Tap Reveal to see an answer, or click the clue to open its own page.

#1 across It's rough when a raw beginner gets in a mess (5)
#2 down Such figures are not Roman (6)
#4 down There's a street market for it in London (3)
#5 down Bind or untie, possibly (5)
#6 across Because a gloss finish can be nice (5)
#6 down Vendors holding twice the cash as prophets (7)
#7 down One much admired though said to be idle (4)
#8 down One side of Glasgow (6)
#9 across Maybe one has gasped about such a lady! (7)
#10 across What a couple can do when, again, there's an R in the month (5)