Cryptic Crossword
The Evening Standard's Cryptic Crossword 12 November 2025 Answers
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1 S
2 W
I
3 S
4 S
5 I
6 S
7 C
R
8 A
P
I
9 P
A
I
N
T
E
R
P
10 E
G
H
A
M
T
11 C
O
U
P
E
W
D
12 M
O
P
U
P
L
13 D
A
14 N
E
L
A
W
L
15 M
E
16 W
17 E
M
U
S
V
18 V
A
N
I
S
H
P
D
19 M
I
N
O
R
M
E
20 T
21 H
E
M
E
S
W
22 F
I
23 L
E
24 H
A
S
N
25 M
E
D
I
C
A
L
L
26 S
T
O
O
L
N
N
27 N
O
R
A
H
T
28 A
I
T
C
H
E
29 L
O
I
T
E
R
S
E
30 A
S
P
E
L
O
31 T
H
I
R
D
Across
- 1. Is this High German dialect notably sibilant? (5)
- 6. The conflicting bit? (5)
- 9. Artist attached to his boat? (7)
- 10. A place in Surrey; for instance, Ham (5)
- 11. Manage to get round the bend in a car (5)
- 12. Do an absorbing job as cleaner (3,2)
- 13. Possibly a lad new in England, formerly (7)
- 15. Point to me with a cry (3)
- 17. Birds in the music room (4)
- 18. Go away like a trade vehicle? (6)
- 19. Youngster of little importance? (5)
- 20. Most of the message can have variations (6)
- 22. A tool in the cabinet? (4)
- 24. Is necessarily to be in phase (3)
- 25. Figures to interrupt a meal for an exam (7)
- 26. Support possibly lost out of love (5)
- 27. Nominally a horn composition (5)
- 28. "eEnry's dropped it! (5)
- 29. It's in difficult roles that one maybe makes little progress (7)
- 30. Michael contrives to please endlessly! (5)
- 31. A substantial proportion may get hit on the road (5)
Down
- 2. Shelter for runners and climbers, perhaps? (6)
- 3. Gardening suit? (6)
- 4. The missile man (3)
- 5. How a vehicle may be taken into central Bayswater (2,3)
- 6. When Sue and Carl get together, there's nothing sacred (7)
- 7. Cut short the work on credit (4)
- 8. Fruit drinks containing a little pepper (6)
- 12. Her Victor's back in Siam! (5)
- 13. There's defence in it (5)
- 14. Naked models cavorting in the dunes (5)
- 15. Character in an opera to see and copy (5)
- 16. We start to lean over and turn (5)
- 18. Swear at the Spanish in a letter (5)
- 19. Medicinal compound men start taking on holiday? (7)
- 21. He also goes round in circles (6)
- 22. The finale sounds like Sibelius (6)
- 23. Singular dance for an old soldier (6)
- 25. The maxim of many a German (5)
- 26. The vending of ales? (4)
- 28. Cunning little chap? (3)