Cryptic Crossword
The Evening Standard's Cryptic Crossword 12 March 2025 Answers
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1 S
2 L
3 S
4 T
A
5 F
6 F
7 P
8 A
T
9 W
A
R
I
10 O
A
K
U
M
11 R
A
N
12 S
N
O
R
T
P
13 C
O
N
T
14 A
C
T
15 M
E
16 R
I
17 T
P
18 E
R
A
19 E
A
S
I
L
Y
20 W
21 P
R
E
T
E
X
T
G
P
22 O
P
E
N
T
P
23 D
I
R
E
O
D
24 D
E
V
O
25 T
E
D
S
26 D
27 R
A
28 P
E
R
29 S
O
S
30 R
31 S
I
L
A
S
32 R
E
T
I
33 R
E
D
L
34 L
I
V
I
D
35 G
A
P
36 N
E
V
E
R
N
37 A
N
G
L
E
D
38 S
E
R
G
E
S
Y
Across
- 3. Kind of officer concerned with recruitment? (5)
- 8. Fighting among great warriors (2,3)
- 10. Picking it was a ropy job (5)
- 11. Moved swiftly in transit (3)
- 12. Express disgust when a letter gets torn to shreds (5)
- 13. It's a touching thing to do (7)
- 15. Value of getting the time about right? (5)
- 18. Time to back up 14 Down (3)
- 19. How to handle a piece of cake (6)
- 21. Alleged reason for an advanced piece of writing? (7)
- 22. Frank has nothing to write (4)
- 23. Terrible rough ride! (4)
- 24. Dedicated to being disfranchised? (7)
- 26. One who has a job to hang curtains? (6)
- 29. Message half of us get so wrong! (3)
- 31. Nominal maker of sails (5)
- 32. Stopped work, being just about exhausted? (7)
- 34. Not exactly vivid, but arguably colourful! (5)
- 35. Hole in a cooking appliance (3)
- 36. Not very emphatically! (5)
- 37. If obtuse, can never be right (5)
- 38. A Russian name for cloth (5)
Down
- 1. It helps prevent a cutthroat from being blunt (5)
- 2. Magic light? (7)
- 4. A colourful suggestion (4)
- 5. A layout as required by a piece of material (6)
- 6. Feast arranged by goddesses (5)
- 7. An opening in optics for a learner (5)
- 9. The western one is pale (3)
- 12. Have one's fling as a broadcaster? (7)
- 14. Have a double life in the Trafalgar Square area (3)
- 16. Uncompromising, to be exact (5)
- 17. Some pretty pestilent sorts! (5)
- 19. Shown up in camera (7)
- 20. Clubs in shady locations (5)
- 21. For the pianist, it can be sustaining (5)
- 23. Could the tattooist have them on people? (7)
- 24. A half dead stallion has a certain need (6)
- 25. Child brought up to be equable (3)
- 27. Only one pound in the red, but unhappy (5)
- 28. Looks a bit sick due to quiet drinks (5)
- 30. An answer you can depend on being soft-hearted (5)
- 32. Central Haringey, possible scene of fighting (4)
- 33. Singular clothing can never be all the rage! (3)