Cryptic Crossword
The Evening Standard's Cryptic Crossword 14 May 2026 Answers
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1 P
R
E
2 S
T
3 O
4 S
5 C
6 P
U
L
7 V
I
C
T
O
R
I
A
S
8 B
A
9 K
E
A
E
R
10 H
O
O
V
E
R
11 U
R
12 G
E
13 N
T
E
14 M
E
N
15 P
16 T
O
D
A
Y
17 R
18 I
B
S
19 C
O
20 M
E
T
D
R
21 J
O
K
E
R
I
I
22 C
A
R
E
T
23 S
24 W
A
25 B
26 A
S
27 T
O
N
R
28 T
I
E
E
29 S
H
U
T
I
N
30 M
A
S
T
E
R
I
R
T
31 O
P
T
S
E
32 D
U
N
N
O
C
K
S
E
F
E
S
R
33 T
U
R
B
O
T
Across
- 1. Quick to take a break in the office (6)
- 7. Not the king of plums! (8)
- 8. Get very heated (4)
- 10. Little house on top of a dam (6)
- 11. Very important old city man (6)
- 14. Simenon made a lot of noise about them (3)
- 16. It's Wednesday, so duck a dunderhead in the river! (5)
- 17. They're bony and cagy (4)
- 19. Space traveller, tailed (5)
- 21. He's a card! (5)
- 22. Sign for the input (5)
- 23. Lubber doing a clean-up job (4)
- 26. Astonishing start at university (5)
- 28. Being knotty, it takes a bit of patience (3)
- 29. Having cracked his nut, is prevented from leaving (4,2)
- 30. The boss may be a mere boy (6)
- 31. Chooses a different spot (4)
- 32. Birds giving a brownish grey fantail a nasty sock! (8)
- 33. When a trout swims drunkenly around Beachy Head, it's definitely fishy! (6)
Down
- 1. Person behind the movement of drugs (6)
- 2. Workers putting minced veal into a vessel (6)
- 3. Done too much (4)
- 4. A beginner in athletics? (7)
- 5. Give credit to some of the needy, for faith (5)
- 6. Political group, crafty on the quiet? (5)
- 8. Robert obtaining millions proves a failure (4)
- 9. Man of Kent (3)
- 12. When shot, go to the treatment centre (3)
- 13. She had a difference with Diana (5)
- 15. A game faced impassively (5)
- 18. Whiskey people (5)
- 19. What cockneys say when they see gold? (3)
- 20. Rail line I may join in time (3)
- 21. It's a job, after one short month, to compose a trio (7)
- 22. You may not remember resting therein (3)
- 23. A relative in hospital (6)
- 24. Cook up a disparaging term for MPs (4)
- 25. Deprived of beer, perhaps, by a certain measure (6)
- 26. Sadie, upset when separated (5)
- 27. Goes round when using the right nuts (5)
- 28. It's apt to be turned on (3)
- 30. Nearly all use a self-starter during a car test (4)