Cryptic Crossword
The Evening Standard's Cryptic Crossword 20 October 2025 Answers
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1 P
A
N
2 C
H
3 O
4 S
5 O
6 I
U
H
7 G
A
T
H
E
R
E
D
S
8 M
A
9 L
L
A
G
E
10 H
O
O
P
O
E
11 A
R
12 M
A
13 D
A
E
14 L
E
G
15 V
16 P
A
N
E
L
17 D
18 E
L
L
19 P
O
20 L
L
Y
L
I
21 D
E
L
A
Y
F
G
22 S
O
G
G
Y
23 B
24 I
T
25 S
26 R
E
27 S
E
W
A
28 P
E
R
W
29 A
R
C
A
N
E
30 D
O
C
I
L
E
N
R
I
31 A
M
O
S
D
32 C
H
A
I
N
S
A
W
M
E
H
G
G
33 N
I
E
C
E
S
Across
- 1. A name no chap would change (6)
- 7. Understood to have made the grade (8)
- 8. Where to shop for a thousand of everything? (4)
- 10. Could you hope to include ducks with this bird? (6)
- 11. Historic seagoing member with a feminine name (6)
- 14. A cricket side (3)
- 16. Flat area wherein the plane crashed? (5)
- 17. In a model landscape, a low part (4)
- 19. She has to take 50 pounds to the office before early closing (5)
- 21. Wait for a New Deal on the 4th of July (5)
- 22. Sloppy sort of sauce containing some eggs (5)
- 23. Parts you may have thrilled to? (4)
- 26. Possibly repair a damaged sewer? (5)
- 28. By getting the key right on the piano (3)
- 29. Are out of a tin, but that's the secret (6)
- 30. Being untidily coiled will do no harm (6)
- 31. Biblical name for a samosa ingredient (4)
- 32. China was broken by this, used as a weapon (5,3)
- 33. Relatively young ladies (6)
Down
- 1. Hurried to turn up and cast off (6)
- 2. Good place going cheap for a pound (6)
- 3. Look round at an unusual leg (4)
- 4. Play in a clever way, i.e. quickly (7)
- 5. A red nose, perhaps, can never quite be orange (5)
- 6. Perfect as the ale I'd brewed (5)
- 8. Gangster's girl wanting some more money (4)
- 9. A timber sleeper? (3)
- 12. She's a blossom (3)
- 13. Pottery possibly left to a daughter (5)
- 15. Victor joins Olga on the river (5)
- 18. Mountain that looks grand in Eire, possibly (5)
- 19. Unripe grapes are too much for her (3)
- 20. Put down as unprofessional (3)
- 21. Drinking in the street (7)
- 22. It has its vacationist side (3)
- 23. Suit to change into (6)
- 24. A girl I'd take some risks for (4)
- 25. Vegetables with a way of going to seed, somehow (6)
- 26. Where there's no job for a dude (5)
- 27. The neck gets cold wrapped in tattered rags (5)
- 28. Mop up for the dog! (3)
- 30. Wonderful wand bringing light (4)