Cryptic Crossword
The Evening Standard's Cryptic Crossword 23 September 2025 Answers
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1 T
2 A
3 B
4 F
I
5 G
H
6 T
S
7 R
E
V
O
L
V
E
R
A
E
I
A
U
8 I
9 S
L
A
N
D
10 P
11 O
I
12 S
E
13 P
A
I
L
U
14 E
L
L
A
15 G
I
R
L
16 P
R
Y
E
17 B
18 R
A
T
19 E
20 I
R
E
21 C
R
E
S
C
22 E
N
D
O
23 S
U
E
S
24 H
A
T
E
25 H
26 O
P
T
27 E
28 V
E
R
29 A
30 L
A
31 S
A
32 O
N
E
R
33 B
L
I
G
H
34 T
R
E
A
T
S
L
B
O
S
T
35 T
O
M
O
R
R
O
W
36 P
E
R
S
I
A
B
A
N
Across
- 4. Struggles to exercise extraordinary gifts, getting out of breath (6)
- 7. Just the weapon to turn the tables? (8)
- 8. Country you can possibly sail round at last (6)
- 10. That elegant grace porpoises have (5)
- 13. Friend possessing one bucket (4)
- 14. She isn't so saintly as Stella (4)
- 15. She gives a soldier contradictory directions (4)
- 16. Use leverage to satisfy curiosity? (3)
- 17. Will he grow up a bigheaded rotter? (4)
- 19. A noted passion for old Ireland (4)
- 21. It gets noisier all the time (9)
- 23. Prosecutes us wrongly for shortage of dues (4)
- 24. No love of old chateau wine (4)
- 26. Choose to go to pot? (3)
- 27. Romeo after a woman at all times (4)
- 29. 'Woe is me', as a girl said (4)
- 32. The blow that was Nero's undoing (4)
- 33. Possibly glib letter from an old seaman (5)
- 34. Special delights that drive the taster wild (6)
- 35. Nobody can look forward to it for long (8)
- 36. Wild praise for the old country (6)
Down
- 1. Rubbish many can't stomach (5)
- 2. The use of ale, it could be said (5)
- 3. Varsity man's word for murder? (4)
- 4. Tuck, perhaps (5)
- 5. A certain bitterness is good for everybody (4)
- 6. The householder's occupation (6)
- 9. Saying nothing about naval service (6)
- 11. Insolent Scandinavian? (3)
- 12. Frolicking bears may suggest this dance (5)
- 13. Projector needed for baseball (7)
- 15. Talk a lot in seeking asylum? (3)
- 16. One paid for knotting ropes pointlessly? (3)
- 18. Dislike being given the same errand twice? (6)
- 20. The perfect way I had brewed ale (5)
- 21. Reduce one's share (3)
- 22. Heart to heart attention (3)
- 23. A press release that's pretty thin? (6)
- 25. Carthaginian witch? (3)
- 28. She's in a grave state (5)
- 30. Sign of a confused liar clutching a bottle opener (5)
- 31. Demonstrated how to go between two points (5)
- 32. Are they rolled into the porridge? (4)
- 33. Robert gets out for 50 - or a duck! (4)