Perfect ending and motive for a crime(7 letters)

Below is the answer to the crossword clue “Perfect ending and motive for a crime”, taken from the Evening Standard's Cryptic crossword on 23rd October 2025.

The answer is

T R E A S O N

7 letters · most recently seen on 23rd October 2025

Other clues that solve to TREASON

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.

#13 across Treachery (7) 24th September 2026
#15 across Betrayal (7) 22nd May 2026
#25 across Crime? Only half of it has motive! (7) 7th December 2025
#25 across Perfect ending and motive for a crime (7) 23rd October 2025
#23 down A bad shaking for 32 Across (7) 2nd October 2025
#31 across Treachery (7) 22nd September 2025
#24 across Crime against the state (7) 27th August 2025
#4 down The titular head has cause for crime (7) 28th June 2025
#6 down Crime against the state (7) 18th June 2025
#30 across Treachery (7) 16th June 2025
#4 down The crime of starting trouble for a cause (7) 8th June 2025
#13 down Clearly no motiveless crime! (7) 11th February 2025
#32 across To start trouble - for whatever cause - is very bad (7) 11th December 2024
#25 across Crime with a Middle Eastern motive (7) 3rd July 2024
#25 across To end the fight for a cause in criminal! (7) 16th May 2024
#23 across Treachery (7) 10th May 2024
#22 down Treachery (7) 11th January 2024
#22 down Crime against the state (7) 17th November 2023
#19 down Crime against the state (7) 7th March 2023
#25 across The titular head has a motive for betrayal (7) 14th February 2023
#6 down Crime against the state (7) 28th July 2022
#19 down Crime with a tip-top motive? (7) 3rd May 2022
#30 across Treachery (7) 21st December 2021
#13 across Treachery (7) 20th September 2021
#15 across Betrayal (7) 22nd January 2021
#25 across Crime? Only half of it has motive! (7) 30th June 2020
#25 across Perfect ending and motive for a crime (7) 28th April 2020
#23 down A bad shaking for “32 Across” (7) 23rd March 2020
#31 across Treachery (7) 7th February 2020
#24 across Crime against the state (7) 6th January 2020
#30 across Treachery (7) 3rd April 2019
#4 down The titular head has cause for crime (7) 3rd April 2019
#6 down Crime against the state (7) 5th March 2019
#13 down Clearly no motiveless crime! (7) 8th November 2018
#32 across To start trouble - for whatever cause - is very bad (7) 17th September 2018
#25 across Crime with a Middle Eastern motive (7) 17th April 2018
#23 across Treachery (7) 3rd April 2018
#25 across To end the fight for a cause in criminal! (7) 13th March 2018

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Other clues from the same Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on 23rd October 2025. Tap Reveal to see an answer, or click the clue to open its own page.

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#3 down Rod will make a change (6)
#4 down Not the complete sleuth (3)
#5 down Upon parting, it may be said out of love (5)
#6 across Name a bar used by American burglars (5)
#6 down In all fairness, nothing but hard water (7)
#7 down It's at church, this irritation (4)
#8 down It's a profitable difference (4-2)
#9 across Get rid of the things we doubt? (4,3)
#10 across Tasteful feature of Goya's pictures (5)