Cryptic Crossword
The Evening Standard's Cryptic Crossword 1 July 2025 Answers
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1 A
L
M
2 O
S
3 T
4 J
5 T
6 F
B
B
7 A
C
C
U
R
A
T
E
O
8 T
E
9 A
R
S
I
V
10 D
O
R
R
I
T
11 S
T
12 A
N
13 C
E
E
14 E
O
N
15 V
16 I
N
T
E
R
17 S
18 V
E
N
19 T
A
20 F
F
Y
L
I
21 F
O
L
L
Y
L
O
22 T
I
P
S
Y
23 H
24 O
O
25 T
26 A
L
27 B
A
N
E
28 S
A
L
O
29 R
A
I
N
E
D
30 L
I
N
G
E
R
I
L
D
31 U
R
S
A
E
32 S
A
L
V
A
D
O
R
O
R
E
Y
Y
33 K
I
M
O
N
O
Across
- 1. Mr Gore getting a majority, nearly (6)
- 7. You need a bit of tact confronting a cleric, it's true (8)
- 8. Damage in the rush? (4)
- 10. Little girl of novel character (6)
- 11. The exemplary position to be in? (6)
- 14. A long time making one change (3)
- 16. As in some cemetery (5)
- 17. Newsvendor's name familiar to football fans (4)
- 19. Welshman sweet to North American kids (5)
- 21. A mistake in building? (5)
- 22. Tiddly, given pourboires by a Yankee (5)
- 23. Owlish thing for a driver to do? (4)
- 26. Saintly Alan, interrupted by a blockhead (5)
- 28. That volatile girl (3)
- 29. Came from heaven, like cats and dogs (6)
- 30. Dally in Berlin Germany (6)
- 31. Is bearish in a major or minor sense (4)
- 32. Dali in one of those foreign parts (8)
- 33. The Japanese may appear quite wrapped up in it (6)
Down
- 1. Homely poems close to a baby's heart (6)
- 2. No bore in a Shakespeare role (6)
- 3. Acid letter to the chap with the knack (4)
- 4. Just in case I get a hearing, find an excuse (7)
- 5. Infection? Maybe it isn't (5)
- 6. Can be yellow or scarlet (5)
- 8. Beerbohm was famous in the theatre, especially (4)
- 9. Ian's own? (3)
- 12. Some from Tuscany? (3)
- 13. Musical collector's piece, possibly (5)
- 15. Waltz playable by a freed slave (5)
- 18. She may have strings attached! (5)
- 19. A champion's place (3)
- 20. Shrewd little creature? (3)
- 21. Together, Fay and Enid arrange a special occasion (4,3)
- 22. Ortanique colour (3)
- 23. Nominally the chap to order a cab (6)
- 24. Woman chopping up a log (4)
- 25. Besides being about to err badly as a bullfighter (6)
- 26. Stand up for a pay increase (5)
- 27. Goat man? (5)
- 28. One thing you could call Alex Ferguson (3)
- 30. Hang around waiting for a slight change of luck (4)