Cryptic Crossword
The Evening Standard's Cryptic Crossword 10 December 2024 Answers
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1 O
2 C
3 S
4 F
I
5 V
E
6 R
S
7 F
L
Y
W
H
E
E
L
E
E
F
N
O
8 E
9 M
E
R
G
E
10 A
11 G
I
12 L
E
13 F
E
A
R
I
14 L
A
C
E
15 M
I
S
S
16 T
O
P
G
17 A
18 R
A
N
19 T
20 W
I
N
21 E
D
U
C
A
22 T
I
O
N
23 B
A
S
S
24 L
A
C
K
25 A
26 R
O
T
27 H
28 O
L
Y
29 E
30 M
I
31 T
L
32 V
E
R
Y
33 S
N
O
R
E
34 N
E
V
A
D
A
I
T
N
R
L
35 T
E
R
M
I
T
E
S
36 P
O
P
E
Y
E
S
O
E
Across
- 4. They're spent making a bit of love amid the trees (6)
- 7. It has a steadying influence in revolution (8)
- 8. Issue a note to me and Reg, possibly (6)
- 10. Active soldier taking the beer round (5)
- 13. Alarm seeming loud to a listener (4)
- 14. Strengthen a delicate fabric (4)
- 15. Spinster in a state? (4)
- 16. To finish up as champions (3)
- 17. One fled from the Islands (4)
- 19. Double top to start, then it's victory! (4)
- 21. It can be auctioned for students' benefit (9)
- 23. Bigheaded fool, but a natural swimmer (4)
- 24. Want cash on account for a kilo (4)
- 26. Brotherly bunkum? (3)
- 27. Like mackerel, really good (4)
- 29. Give out in time (4)
- 32. The silvery part is real! (4)
- 33. Sound made by a person who's lost his head? (5)
- 34. Where Guinevere shows heart, Ada too (6)
- 35. Social crawlers (8)
- 36. Sailor with a fatherly look? (6)
Down
- 1. Non-vegetarian food the old king left (5)
- 2. Misanthrope seeming not quite nice to little Cyrus (5)
- 3. One going on foot (4)
- 4. Feels panicky and runs away (5)
- 5. Swing round, not back (4)
- 6. It could, of course, be a foreign part (6)
- 9. Such varnish seems a bit sticky to mum (6)
- 11. Either way, a silencer (3)
- 12. Wires that make the French terribly sad (5)
- 13. How to serve a friend with the last portion of fish (7)
- 15. The garment for many a company head (3)
- 16. Continental element? (3)
- 18. Ran fast as the herd stampeded around us (6)
- 20. Come to (5)
- 21. Take down what's on the menu (3)
- 22. River of outer Torquay (3)
- 23. Music arranged for oboe, cleverly using both hands (6)
- 25. A tune that can grow on you? (3)
- 28. Give a speech for zero payment (5)
- 30. Slogan of many a German (5)
- 31. Strained at present? (5)
- 32. The Latin student's farewell to natural depression (4)
- 33. Joan carried on very amusingly (4)