Cryptic Crossword
The Evening Standard's Cryptic Crossword 14 August 2025 Answers
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1 K
2 D
3 K
4 B
E
5 C
O
6 M
E
7 E
Y
E
P
I
E
C
E
A
A
B
N
S
8 G
9 A
N
G
U
P
10 A
11 L
I
12 A
S
13 G
I
S
T
M
14 B
O
M
B
15 P
E
N
S
16 B
A
P
W
17 B
18 O
O
T
19 E
20 S
A
U
21 G
O
L
D
W
22 A
T
C
H
23 Y
E
T
I
24 E
L
S
A
25 W
26 M
E
T
27 V
28 A
L
E
29 L
30 O
A
31 D
L
32 S
E
L
L
33 V
E
R
G
E
34 A
L
L
U
R
E
I
D
N
E
R
35 R
O
U
N
D
E
R
S
36 A
D
V
E
N
T
E
R
E
Across
- 4. Get to suit (6)
- 7. In optics, a bit of looker? (8)
- 8. Get together against backing a dog and a horse (4,2)
- 10. Nominally you'll find a clue in central Dakar (5)
- 13. Joe, by the way, is the tenor (4)
- 14. The high cost of terrorism? (4)
- 15. Writers of a footnote about certain points (4)
- 16. Not all crab apples can be eaten (3)
- 17. Kick in the rear? (4)
- 19. Biblical name in every thesaurus (4)
- 21. Grand old guard giving timely information (4,5)
- 23. Nevertheless one may be thought really to exist (4)
- 24. She's back, more than half asleep (4)
- 26. Satisfied with a methodical start (3)
- 27. Prevalent depression in the countryside? (4)
- 29. Pressure on a youth with nothing to hide? (4)
- 32. Dispose of, part used, for lb50 (4)
- 33. Border on being edgy (5)
- 34. Charm a chap with temptation (6)
- 35. A case of 'hit and run' involving children (8)
- 36. Nowadays, an opening is always coming (6)
Down
- 1. Food they bake badly at Birkenhead? (5)
- 2. Material may be mined (5)
- 3. Make a little love with a light touch (4)
- 4. Start to live with spirit (5)
- 5. Is incapable of hypocrisy? (4)
- 6. The terrorists twice gave mum a turn (3,3)
- 9. Liquid maybe, but a mug will take only half (6)
- 11. Owl fluttering near the ground (3)
- 12. Good man's boat wrecked around Beachy Head (5)
- 13. On the cards as good advice? (3,4)
- 15. A case of seediness? (3)
- 16. Utterance of a bachelor on fishing lunch (3)
- 18. Is he a Romeo to a girl? (6)
- 20. Climb on a fish's back, perhaps? (5)
- 21. Achieve one's target at last (3)
- 22. The dealer's drink? (3)
- 23. Held to rhyme with 'howled' (6)
- 25. With wages cut, will he joke? (3)
- 28. Warning of real disaster starting tomorrow? (5)
- 30. Tell someone the arrangement? (5)
- 31. Possibly needs to be thick (5)
- 32. Satisfied it's safe (4)
- 33. Do such tomatoes taste like grapes? (4)