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The Evening Standard's Cryptic Crossword 15 August 2025 Answers

Please find below all the The Evening Standard's Cryptic Crossword 15 August 2025 Answers. This is one of the most popular crossword puzzles available for both online and in print version. Today's puzzle (15 August 2025) has a total of 44 crossword clues. If you are stuck and are looking for help then you have come to the right place.

Drying while you're phoning
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E
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Better than when it comes to barbering?
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C
U
T
A
B
O
V
E
Delighted to detect you say
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E
N
T
Said it's a surface charm
A
P
P
E
A
L
After half an hour I send food round to feed
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R
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S
H
A miniature plane perhaps
D
W
A
R
F
T
R
E
E
Sets straight on the subject of clothes
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E
D
R
E
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E
S
On the day dead annoyed about its being full of holes
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I
D
D
L
E
D
An animal and one dicky bird!
P
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G
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O
N
Decline to become enamoured of
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A
L
L
Giving a guarantee which is auspicious
P
R
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N
G
Set off and left after the other three we're told
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E
N
T
F
O
R
T
H
Moor by the river bank
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E
R
Even though one has the odd bleat about it
A
L
B
E
I
T
Is he grumbling about the old-fashioned transport?
G
R
O
W
L
E
R
With set ideas going off to do some bird-watching?
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I
D
E
B
O
U
N
D
Is clearly irritated by and cancels
S
C
R
A
T
C
H
E
S
An advertisement from 15?
L
E
A
F
L
E
T
About a quarter recover? How surprising!
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E
A
L
L
Y
Fool who will given time get sense
T
W
I
T
An ally in one form or another
C
L
A
S
S
M
A
T
E
Pay my debts? Lay off!
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S
C
H
A
R
G
E
Deem to be deliberate
C
O
N
S
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D
E
R
What happened when the flag was hoisted showing a flower?
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T
A
N
D
A
R
D
R
O
S
E
Smiled when the spider got me agitated
S
I
M
P
E
R
E
D
The girl's been stood up again and that's tough
S
E
V
E
R
E
Speak ill of as a ruddy awful paper
B
A
L
L
Y
R
A
G
Prepared the bed for sleeping in - didn't like it
T
U
R
N
E
D
D
O
W
N
Downcast and carrying an instrument said hello
S
A
L
U
T
E
D
The old man like myself had so healthy an upbringing
M
E
T
H
U
S
E
L
A
H
Misses one most being crazy about
O
M
I
T
S
Brief one on how to be a substitute?
F
I
L
L
I
N
The girl who took your coat?
P
E
G
Spring water
A
P
R
I
L
S
H
O
W
E
R
S
Attempt to get the keys to the garrison
E
F
F
O
R
T
Like the shorts dirty from playing football?
P
I
T
C
H
B
L
A
C
K
The salesman's favourite words? I believe you!
I
L
L
B
U
Y
T
H
A
T
It is to the point showing intelligence
W
I
T
Authorises at last the transplantation of the roses
E
N
D
O
R
S
E
S
Left inside so germs spread which is stupid
G
O
R
M
L
E
S
S
As favours prepared to keep in store packaged
R
O
S
E
T
T
E
S
A terrible slob I add hard to get rid of
A
B
O
L
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S
H
A drink before the play
D
R
A
M
A
Supports the defensive efforts
S
T
A
N
D
S

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Facts and Figures

  • There are a total of 44 clues in the 15 August 2025 The Evening Standard's Cryptic Crossword puzzle.
  • The shortest answer is PEG which contains 3 Characters.
  • The girl who took your coat? is the crossword clue of the shortest answer.
  • The longest answer is STANDARDROSE which contains 12 Characters.
  • What happened when the flag was hoisted showing a flower? is the crossword clue of the longest answer.
  • The unused letters in 15 August 2025 The Evening Standard's Cryptic Crossword puzzle are J,Q,X,Z