Cryptic Crossword
The Evening Standard's Cryptic Crossword 15 January 2026 Answers
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1 E
2 L
M
3 E
4 R
5 R
6 S
7 K
I
8 P
S
O
9 C
A
R
A
V
A
N
O
10 L
I
G
H
T
L
11 M
O
L
L
Y
T
O
12 A
L
L
O
W
L
13 S
E
14 V
E
N
T
Y
V
15 G
E
16 M
17 P
R
O
D
O
18 P
A
T
I
N
A
I
C
19 S
N
E
E
R
A
N
20 C
21 H
A
N
C
E
T
22 I
N
23 T
O
24 E
E
L
A
25 F
A
I
N
T
E
R
A
26 S
M
A
L
L
T
N
27 S
T
R
I
P
O
28 C
I
N
D
Y
E
29 T
E
A
R
O
O
M
E
30 A
D
D
E
R
A
31 L
E
A
R
N
Across
- 1. New name for Mr Lee (5)
- 6. Avoids the jumps? (5)
- 9. In an Irish county, an artist has a mobile home (7)
- 10. Slightly less clever, but easy to enjoy (5)
- 11. Someone to coddle (5)
- 12. You'll admit the town centre has everything (5)
- 13. Rather elderly for such speed? (7)
- 15. It's of great value in management (3)
- 17. Poke softly with a stick (4)
- 18. A paint surface? (6)
- 19. Look disdainfully both ways, always? (5)
- 20. Possibility of a companion getting the cane, maybe? (6)
- 22. For this penetrating word, I trust to love! (4)
- 24. Fish in the Elbe (3)
- 25. One apt to swoon, being weaker? (7)
- 26. A little collection of alms - a bit of help (5)
- 27. Teasingly long piece? (5)
- 28. Girl to see in the part of a lady? (5)
- 29. A refreshing place (7)
- 30. Creature unable to multiply? (5)
- 31. Find how to make finance work profitably (5)
Down
- 2. Take your time with it in a new role! (6)
- 3. Sounded unoriginal (6)
- 4. One doing the dirty out of wrath? (3)
- 5. Ray's holding the money again, we gather (5)
- 6. It needn't contain Russian tea (7)
- 7. As you realise, it sounds discouraging (4)
- 8. Flower fertiliser (6)
- 12. A note shiftily to make up (5)
- 13. An additive used in hospices (5)
- 14. Like a number of singers (5)
- 15. Big Joe, a six-footer (5)
- 16. Police district or man, maybe (5)
- 18. Breaking a plate is a bit of a bloomer (5)
- 19. Hurry to spread a stupid scare about a politician (7)
- 21. He has a name for getting angry (6)
- 22. Eventually be punctual (2,4)
- 23. Can be rented - by a nurse? (6)
- 25. Generally she's not beastly! (5)
- 26. Something to work on constructively (4)
- 28. Pass for an officer (3)