Cryptic Crossword
The Evening Standard's Cryptic Crossword 10 October 2025 Answers
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1 H
2 S
3 B
4 S
5 S
6 D
7 D
8 L
O
A
T
H
E
D
9 S
T
O
C
K
R
O
O
M
10 S
B
A
E
11 I
A
A
E
L
12 F
13 T
R
A
I
N
14 R
U
N
O
N
15 T
R
A
C
T
O
R
A
R
D
S
S
D
T
M
A
16 B
E
T
R
O
T
H
17 T
H
I
N
E
18 H
U
19 M
A
N
L
U
A
O
D
R
O
A
C
20 E
G
21 R
E
T
22 M
O
R
A
L
E
23 B
U
S
T
L
E
E
P
E
E
24 B
S
E
25 C
A
R
26 T
O
O
N
27 P
A
T
E
L
L
A
L
A
O
28 D
29 C
T
O
30 S
T
I
L
L
S
31 D
I
G
O
U
T
32 L
O
T
T
33 O
I
S
E
34 C
S
N
L
O
V
35 G
R
E
E
N
36 O
V
E
R
T
37 E
N
N
O
38 B
L
E
H
T
R
N
E
S
G
A
R
39 T
U
40 R
N
S
O
N
41 T
O
N
I
C
42 L
I
N
E
D
S
O
H
E
O
T
E
E
N
O
43 N
O
T
O
N
T
I
M
E
44 S
N
I
G
G
E
R
K
W
S
B
E
S
R
Across
- 8. Bearing the burden one couldn't bear (7)
- 9. Soup kitchen? (9)
- 13. Teach the followers (5)
- 14. Keep talking of how there's a great demand for? (3,2)
- 15. What the farmer has as an alternative to land (7)
- 16. Promise to give a hand to (7)
- 17. A predecessor of yours (5)
- 18. Being as I am (5)
- 20. The bird with the long tail in the swaying tree (5)
- 22. About a litre more of spirit (6)
- 23. What made the lady seem all behind and be so busy? (6)
- 25. Funny drawing of a box with a duck in it (7)
- 27. The head? All wrong. It's part of the knee (7)
- 30. Big shots in the film business (6)
- 31. Find the Princess has gout (3,3)
- 32. See a tot inside playing a game (5)
- 35. Lacking experience about and knowledge about (5)
- 36. Over the top - that's clear (5)
- 37. Make Leo Benn Sir Leo Benn? (7)
- 39. Attacks when one throws the switch (5,2)
- 41. Back in bed holding a medicine bottle (5)
- 42. Like the heavy curtains, looking rather old (5)
- 43. Mention to about being unpunctual (3,2,4)
- 44. Laugh when the singer goes off key in it (7)
Down
- 1. In a well-heated pub in Australia (6)
- 2. And the porter carrying it will be conspicuous (5,3)
- 3. What made the curls in the hair tight? (4,7)
- 4. Don't sit doing nothing! (5,4)
- 5. Someone shooing the animals so they disperse (7)
- 6. Alice's home? (5,5)
- 7. The silly fool got told off (4)
- 10. The building is not getting any worse (6)
- 11. Stocked by the shop now or yet to come (2,5)
- 12. A coin and a note from a foreign country (6)
- 19. An officer has, below him, many a sailor (7)
- 21. Make paper money! (7)
- 24. A lot of people get shot fighting in it (6,5)
- 26. In which gifts are on display (6,4)
- 28. Get up late (9)
- 29. Happy? Not terribly, though in the money (7)
- 30. Sees and quotes aloud (6)
- 32. What made Daddy so tall? (4,4)
- 33. About to have a party, tax yourself unduly (6)
- 34. Firm and stern, gathering up the instruments (7)
- 38. The girl has the little brother carrying the flag (6)
- 40. A bird seeking a mate? (4)