Cryptic Crossword
The Evening Standard's Cryptic Crossword 20 June 2026 Answers
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1 S
2 P
O
3 T
4 S
5 B
6 E
7 W
E
8 R
S
U
9 R
A
L
E
I
G
H
U
10 S
T
R
I
P
N
11 G
A
U
N
T
T
P
12 T
I
G
H
T
N
13 S
E
14 A
L
I
O
N
E
15 P
E
16 T
17 T
R
U
E
U
18 M
A
N
U
R
E
O
G
19 B
R
O
O
D
T
N
20 O
21 T
H
E
R
S
T
22 S
U
23 M
O
24 P
O
T
A
25 C
H
O
P
P
E
R
L
26 M
I
N
U
S
A
W
27 M
E
N
U
S
L
28 T
R
A
I
N
D
29 L
E
F
T
O
U
T
N
30 B
O
W
L
S
S
31 B
A
R
G
E
Across
- 1. Sees vessels at Spithead (5)
- 6. They may well hold water (5)
- 9. Was it due to a girl he upset that he lost his head? (7)
- 10. Where to land, perhaps, and take off (5)
- 11. A good relationship wasted? (5)
- 12. But not too mean to get drunk? (5)
- 13. A creature so alien in form (7)
- 15. Whip it - the dog! (3)
- 17. It's right to regret coming to the worst conclusion (4)
- 18. The sort of muck spread with enriching results (6)
- 19. Think seriously about the chicks (5)
- 20. People who aren't themselves? (6)
- 22. Wrestling for both love and money (4)
- 24. Shoot the dope! (3)
- 25. It can have one blade or more (7)
- 26. A line for removal (5)
- 27. Lists of consuming interest (5)
- 28. One spotted at the station? (5)
- 29. Omitted to describe a boxer's usual stance (4,3)
- 30. Where the play's concerned, they're biased (5)
- 31. Maybe grab the end of a rope on a vessel (5)
Down
- 2. It's for placing the ball (6)
- 3. Multiple trip to mid-Solent (6)
- 4. Vegetable substance in sarsaparilla (3)
- 5. Mountain in an African country (5)
- 6. Could his intelligence encourage a master? (7)
- 7. A question of western headgear (4)
- 8. Athlete or climber (bean-pole type) (6)
- 12. Pleasant journeys around the Stour? (5)
- 13. Condescend to give a drunken sot work (5)
- 14. Anything a thug can break (5)
- 15. What a hotelier can do to raise prices? (3,2)
- 16. Singer of a number during an unsuccessful winter (5)
- 18. Fliers with taste in clothes? (5)
- 19. To finish the job, promotes cooks (7)
- 21. Though badly tooled, has produced fine cutlery (6)
- 22. A trap's returned from the city (6)
- 23. What a gull may be doing for some time on the wing (6)
- 25. Groups having faith in difficult situations (5)
- 26. Where the Scots make a hot drink? (4)
- 28. A vessel, but overturned (3)