Cryptic Crossword
The Evening Standard's Cryptic Crossword 12 August 2025 Answers
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1 F
2 L
O
3 U
4 T
5 R
6 M
7 A
I
8 L
S
A
9 S
A
V
A
G
E
S
A
10 T
I
T
A
N
P
11 T
H
O
S
E
D
B
12 P
I
T
H
Y
S
13 F
U
14 E
L
L
E
D
A
15 T
I
16 S
17 A
P
S
E
C
18 A
N
T
H
E
M
I
S
19 C
A
B
L
E
R
I
20 T
21 R
A
J
A
N
L
22 C
O
23 S
T
24 H
A
Y
S
25 N
O
T
A
B
L
E
M
26 S
T
O
U
T
S
E
27 T
O
W
E
L
T
28 T
I
M
E
S
N
29 N
E
W
T
O
W
N
V
30 M
A
I
D
S
Y
31 O
G
L
E
D
Across
- 1. Accept no authority from a fatheaded oaf (5)
- 6. A slim assortment of postal packages (5)
- 9. In the wild, they don't contrive to save gas (7)
- 10. Gigantic source of taint (5)
- 11. The ones belonging to Thomas East (5)
- 12. Short and interesting, at heart (5)
- 13. Given something to burn (7)
- 15. This is breathlessly assertive! (3)
- 17. Part of a church in a state of collapse (4)
- 18. There's a national one for these people (6)
- 19. Communicate by taxi with the French (5)
- 20. As emperor, he had his own column (6)
- 22. Price of sheet music, ostensibly (4)
- 24. Perhaps a lofty Haydn piece? (3)
- 25. Famously lacking ability? (7)
- 26. Strong drink (5)
- 27. We go in to the left (by rail, maybe?) (5)
- 28. Occasions of upsetting '16 Down' (5)
- 29. Where, afresh, one went off to be a proprietor (3,4)
- 30. Females dim as can be? (5)
- 31. Looked to perambulate the dog about half a mile? (5)
Down
- 2. Sick of being kept in reserve? (4,2)
- 3. Valid way for us to get fit (6)
- 4. Instant healthy-looking colour? (3)
- 5. Singular thing to shoot on the river! (5)
- 6. Somehow name the gas (7)
- 7. Like a backward, pale appearance? (4)
- 8. Would she fib about a fathead? (6)
- 12. Growing need to change pace at one point (5)
- 13. A woman with both hope and charity? (5)
- 14. Piece of writing for the Standard, say? (5)
- 15. Beat both possibly outright (5)
- 16. Strike as being old-fashioned? (5)
- 18. Give everything not to be decapitated! (5)
- 19. Strong places to chuck a chap into (7)
- 21. She's Spanish, but there's a Roman version (6)
- 22. Preparing to rob of cover? (6)
- 23. You may well have a hand in it, albeit briefly (6)
- 25. Not so much heady as potty! (5)
- 26. Post a letter to finish with (4)
- 28. Figure of a magnificent woman (3)