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The Evening Standard's Cryptic Crossword 2 January 2026 Answers

Please find below all the The Evening Standard's Cryptic Crossword 2 January 2026 Answers. This is one of the most popular crossword puzzles available for both online and in print version. Today's puzzle (2 January 2026) has a total of 46 crossword clues. If you are stuck and are looking for help then you have come to the right place.

The fate of Desmond Little
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High but not squeaky?
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Letter from a hothead
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The racket is in a different one
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There's mischief in the air when this little imp becomes active!
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Posted earlier now
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Flush and show you've been taken unawares
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The beer is put inside in the passage
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Scolded a tear-drop starts to form
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Partaking of being forced to
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A cursory hug on entering not from love
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Take in only to give solace to
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The close relations as usual sent out
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The word frightfully over and over again
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Free water
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In addition to the contract get a spin-drier
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Sound of water we hear
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Get on and go along with you
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Tapes the best performance of all time
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They allow one to keep in touch with people
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What he said as he battered down the door?
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Not being polite to a bird!
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A
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N
Awful trouble you'll have getting the infernal money?
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Y
Trying to get an interview with the top man
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Put the stand by the seat
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When it's finished need that break
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N
D
To put it concisely confined to a lunatic's inferno
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L
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No singles: none at all
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Like the flibbertigibbet Miss Bird?
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T
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Would a moored houseboat be one?
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Having taken the water cure successfully?
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L
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If the lady's put the wrong map in it won't help
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M
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Don't notice that I have added to the letter
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As yet wearing only underclothes dress
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T
Having spotted quoted aloud
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The couple returned the animal to me outside
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What the thief didn't find in the safe?
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Usual answer to Why are you simmering that bone?
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Given an estimate for a new sari going into shock!
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A
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Such a face as the wrinkled Enid has at fifty-four?
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Undertake having the equipment
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A
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L
E
Food for the sweet-toothed Lorelei?
R
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K
E
In the world of boxing is increasing
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N
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Is this fruit all the rage?
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Securing work in the syndicate
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N
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Even at the end was bound to
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D

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Facts and Figures

  • There are a total of 46 clues in the 2 January 2026 The Evening Standard's Cryptic Crossword puzzle.
  • The shortest answer is WELL which contains 4 Characters.
  • Having taken the water cure successfully? is the crossword clue of the shortest answer.
  • The longest answer is INANUTSHELL which contains 11 Characters.
  • To put it concisely confined to a lunatic's inferno is the crossword clue of the longest answer.
  • The unused letters in 2 January 2026 The Evening Standard's Cryptic Crossword puzzle are J,Q,Z