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The Evening Standard's Cryptic Crossword 19 December 2025 Answers

Please find below all the The Evening Standard's Cryptic Crossword 19 December 2025 Answers. This is one of the most popular crossword puzzles available for both online and in print version. Today's puzzle (19 December 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.

While gaining ground previously
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Before Eve came along Adam was liable to err
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Will a great many houses be built on them?
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To satisfy get a permanent home
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It's black with a silver background
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Lecture about how birds preen themselves
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How one goes to surpass by outnumbering a little?
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The first few are horrid
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Sell again at the end
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The story is good set in the city
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No longer blue having made a lot of money
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By autumn most of their leaves have gone
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Settles in a foreign country
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Was changing the bandage
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Add Inside there's a bird bone
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Suitable expression for the sergeant major giving an order?
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Very well better it chum!
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Beside a bar out East
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Continue slowly and boringly --- it's monstrous!
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A big name in astronomy?
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Teas for three at the tea dance?
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They keep servants
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Gave all the information to while one dealt with the forms
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By which the bowler's baby arrived with no complications?
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Mount up and trot after the animal
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Be taking on a number only to get vanquished
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Is revealed when one makes one's exit
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A refutation issued from home?
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The cleaner the better half will hire
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Shipwrecked and icy cold
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I came in very damp
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Pries up with metal objects
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Knock up as usual
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Not much to look at the fool and he's not in uniform
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Where oxygen is taken or absorbed
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Suitable accompaniment for a spring meal?
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Early morning rush
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Those waiting to hear a signal
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It's best to hide anyhow when coming in terribly late
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Stays to have a meal and drinks after
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Spring roses in a bunch for the dignitary's wife
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Affix a note to the case
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Put the dog-end out dear girl
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Helps one in and seats are provided
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Facts and Figures

  • There are a total of 44 clues in the 19 December 2025 The Evening Standard's Cryptic Crossword puzzle.
  • The shortest answer is RAP which contains 3 Characters.
  • Knock up as usual is the crossword clue of the shortest answer.
  • The longest answer is FASTDELIVERY which contains 12 Characters.
  • By which the bowler's baby arrived with no complications? is the crossword clue of the longest answer.
  • The unused letters in 19 December 2025 The Evening Standard's Cryptic Crossword puzzle are J,Q,X,Z