Cryptic Crossword
The Evening Standard's Cryptic Crossword 20 June 2025 Answers
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1 U
2 P
3 A
4 R
5 G
6 C
7 S
8 D
9 E
N
T
A
N
G
L
E
10 T
W
O
11 O
B
T
A
I
N
B
R
R
P
O
I
N
E
S
12 R
A
T
T
L
E
13 R
E
P
E
N
T
S
14 L
I
C
K
L
E
O
E
G
I
L
L
15 P
A
S
16 S
E
D
O
V
E
R
17 T
E
S
T
A
T
O
R
N
U
O
E
O
T
S
18 S
C
O
R
I
N
G
19 M
20 A
Y
O
21 E
N
22 S
U
E
D
E
G
23 H
S
F
N
T
24 D
O
E
S
25 O
N
E
S
H
E
A
R
T
G
O
O
26 D
O
P
A
E
R
R
O
27 C
28 H
A
N
G
E
29 V
A
S
T
30 C
31 L
E
A
R
U
P
O
N
E
32 O
A
G
B
33 G
O
I
34 N
G
S
O
N
35 D
I
S
O
R
D
E
R
L
Y
D
A
E
K
R
T
K
E
36 S
W
O
T
37 C
A
N
D
O
U
R
38 S
P
39 E
E
D
Y
I
U
R
O
V
I
P
D
Y
40 E
N
T
R
E
E
41 W
E
E
42 C
R
U
S
A
D
E
S
K
E
T
S
H
R
M
D
Across
- 9. Snarl up the net badly that you fish with (8)
- 10. Overstated the number (3)
- 11. Get a bit worried on going round (6)
- 12. Are noisy, which does upset one (6)
- 13. Reproaches oneself about having spent foolishly (7)
- 14. Lap speed that's fast (4)
- 15. Didn't dwell on its having been transferred to (6,4)
- 17. He's willing to try to get the list back (8)
- 18. Writing groovy music for the film? (7)
- 19. The lady-love is in Ireland (4)
- 21. Followed the girl in, you conclude (6)
- 24. The doctor will tell you avoiding stress has a cheering effect (4,4,5,4)
- 27. For which you take a holiday, having a little money? (6)
- 29. A great number got away (4)
- 30. Brighten when you solve the mystery (5,2)
- 33. Happenings during the performers' entrances? (6-2)
- 35. No doubt drunk and needing to be sorted out (10)
- 36. Going back to quarters to study (4)
- 37. Showing directness where many wandered around (7)
- 38. Parking inside not very well but fast (6)
- 40. Right to go in and have something to eat (6)
- 41. Speaking French, yes, a little (3)
- 42. With a string of curses, trapped now, fights (8)
Down
- 1. Mad to find one's accounts not coming out even? (10)
- 2. Some net return (4)
- 3. Undertook, though enraged, to mend the hole in (6,2)
- 4. Scold for always standing around (7)
- 5. "Being more successful than is good for you" is overstating it (5,3,3)
- 6. First agree about its being in keeping with (10)
- 7. Spill the beans, when back, about her (6)
- 8. Show on the record that you are beaten by (8)
- 10. Customer the pub gets the highest return from? (5)
- 16. Do patients keep coming in streams to him? (7)
- 20. Remains while the female hides inside (5)
- 22. Keeping a key to get into the shop (7)
- 23. Don't ask me! Your answers may come from above! (6,5)
- 25. Information leaked about the golf tournament? (4,6)
- 26. Like the villain, originally fair, who went ginger, then black? (6-4)
- 28. Deceive the gangster with the signal (8)
- 31. An incentive to the bird to visit your garden? (8)
- 32. Bird of a strange sort I found in Germany (7)
- 34. Mother, you have to dress, eat and run! (6)
- 35. Took a swing at - goaded one into (5)
- 39. Constrained to send back an import (4)