Cryptic Crossword
The Evening Standard's Cryptic Crossword 13 August 2025 Answers
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1 P
A
U
2 S
E
3 S
4 H
5 G
6 G
A
T
7 T
A
K
E
T
I
M
E
N
8 O
U
9 S
E
A
V
N
10 C
U
R
F
E
W
11 A
L
12 B
E
13 R
T
H
14 A
F
T
15 P
16 T
U
N
E
S
17 O
18 N
L
Y
19 P
U
20 S
H
Y
F
O
21 B
E
L
A
Y
E
R
22 P
O
P
P
Y
23 B
24 A
R
25 T
26 A
T
27 W
A
R
Y
28 J
A
R
A
29 S
H
I
R
E
S
30 B
A
N
T
A
M
S
N
O
31 A
W
A
Y
I
32 A
C
C
R
U
I
N
G
N
N
M
H
T
33 S
E
A
D
O
G
Across
- 1. At intervals, dad exercises (6)
- 7. Seize the occasion, but don't do so immediately (4,4)
- 8. River put to no practical purpose? (4)
- 10. Bell that didn't mean a lot to a dog (6)
- 11. Watchful about central Kilburn, he was nearer Victoria (6)
- 14. A foot back (3)
- 16. For music, improves the pitch (5)
- 17. Is commonly given a unique finish (4)
- 19. Turn up distrustful and self-assertive (5)
- 21. An arresting thing for a sailor to say (5)
- 22. A fatherly bloomer? (5)
- 23. Titled little boy? (4)
- 26. In a struggle to treat a wart (2,3)
- 28. A vessel? Yes, on the starboard side (3)
- 29. Counties with a common end (6)
- 30. Weight of a cocky little boxer? (6)
- 31. A distance from home (4)
- 32. Piling up in capital style (8)
- 33. In one main sense, he knows the ropes (3,3)
Down
- 1. Villa in Mexico once (6)
- 2. Conventional in a materialistic way? (6)
- 3. Cook, using some steam and little water (4)
- 4. Not necessarily wealthy or wise (7)
- 5. Provided drink all round when the day was victorious (5)
- 6. Small men in urgent straits (5)
- 8. By word of mouth or a letter (4)
- 9. Fixed the telly? (3)
- 12. Purchase, by the sound of it (3)
- 13. Allude in freer usage (5)
- 15. Soft or mushy, like certain fiction? (5)
- 18. Where to go up (5)
- 19. Go very quietly out East (3)
- 20. Outskirts of Salisbury, for instance (3)
- 21. Confirmed the dreary fellow was ejected (4,3)
- 22. Knock up to standard (3)
- 23. You couldn't give one straight to a monkey (6)
- 24. Tray fashioned in aesthetic style (4)
- 25. Subduing, thanks to an old Chinese (6)
- 26. In this state, you shouldn't go short of tea (5)
- 27. To gain a companion, a cranky thing to do? (5)
- 28. Is there much talk of exercising it? (3)
- 30. Plenty to carry (4)