Cryptic Crossword
The Evening Standard's Cryptic Crossword 23 November 2025 Answers
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1 M
2 S
3 H
4 C
O
5 P
P
6 E
R
7 O
U
T
R
E
A
C
H
O
N
T
A
R
8 A
9 S
S
I
G
N
10 H
11 O
R
12 S
E
13 P
I
T
Y
E
14 S
A
S
H
15 H
A
R
E
16 A
L
E
T
17 O
18 V
E
R
19 P
20 O
D
S
21 D
R
A
M
A
22 T
I
C
S
23 T
I
E
R
24 G
O
N
E
25 F
26 L
O
P
27 I
28 R
O
N
29 A
30 T
O
31 P
R
32 N
E
O
N
33 S
N
A
R
E
34 S
Q
U
I
D
S
O
W
K
U
P
35 E
N
T
R
A
N
C
E
36 V
E
R
S
U
S
T
Y
S
Across
- 4. Bobby's very soft-hearted (6)
- 7. On tour, perhaps, everyone can go farther (8)
- 8. Instead, indicate who's on duty (6)
- 10. A letter or two from an Arab, perhaps (5)
- 13. It's in extremes of poverty that one gets charity (4)
- 14. Window frame of initially seasoned timber (4)
- 15. A noted runner from the Shoreditch area (4)
- 16. Refreshment contributing to alertness (3)
- 17. No more deliveries! (4)
- 19. Cases of vegetables (4)
- 21. Maybe amateur plays about central Acton, I see (9)
- 23. Frontiersman's rank? (4)
- 24. A light-hearted individual no more (4)
- 26. Shorten a large musical work (3)
- 27. Do evening work at the laundry (4)
- 29. A spinner heading the average? (4)
- 32. It's used in lighting the way ahead (4)
- 33. Could gin be such a trap? (5)
- 34. Might divers find them hissing about money? (6)
- 35. Charm one's way in? (8)
- 36. Against a number of cunning ruses (6)
Down
- 1. They can make holes in your wardrobe! (5)
- 2. Unreachable celebrities? (5)
- 3. Present the girl with an eye opener! (4)
- 4. Preside over the church music (5)
- 5. Suspected spy holding nothing but flowers (4)
- 6. Like most men with broken legs, he was philosophical (6)
- 9. Intercede with a composition for spinet (4,2)
- 11. With only one to eat, you'd be seedy! (3)
- 12. Wild horse never far from water (5)
- 13. Virtuous soldier nearly no longer with us? (7)
- 15. Bit of a he-man, but edgy (3)
- 16. The small ones, presumably (3)
- 18. Changed to go for a drive (6)
- 20. Maybe a once wide water? (5)
- 21. A quick swim and something saucy? (3)
- 22. Not over weight (3)
- 23. Result when a twister rushed round the head of the queue? (6)
- 25. In favour of turning right (3)
- 28. Can their thorns cause sores? (5)
- 30. Lionlike or owlish (5)
- 31. Keeps wild dogs (5)
- 32. Toss up for the drinks! (4)
- 33. Kind of boozer seen around central Hammersmith (4)