Cryptic Crossword
The Evening Standard's Cryptic Crossword 25 February 2025 Answers
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1 U
2 S
3 S
4 C
O
5 D
D
6 L
E
7 S
A
N
D
W
I
C
H
U
E
I
I
A
8 E
9 V
E
N
E
D
10 N
11 A
P
12 P
Y
13 K
E
E
L
R
14 G
L
E
E
15 N
I
P
S
16 B
E
D
L
17 A
18 M
E
N
19 T
20 O
A
D
21 B
L
O
O
D
22 B
A
T
H
23 G
A
S
P
24 R
A
S
H
25 Y
26 H
E
N
27 P
28 R
E
Y
29 E
30 D
A
31 M
R
32 L
E
A
D
33 B
R
A
K
E
34 P
A
R
O
D
Y
I
R
R
L
T
35 O
P
E
R
A
T
O
R
36 E
D
I
S
O
N
D
S
Y
Across
- 4. Spoil, and you can get very much scolded (6)
- 7. Does such a man have taste in advertising? (8)
- 8. Tied the score with a regular fellow (6)
- 10. That of a sleepy baby? (5)
- 13. On the level, it's even (4)
- 14. A club's old song (4)
- 15. Goes quickly with backspin (4)
- 16. It's restful in the garden (3)
- 17. It's religiously conclusive (4)
- 19. To a dunderhead, an unattractive creature (4)
- 21. Slaughter of the alliterative? (5,4)
- 23. Possibly the last section of gas pipe (4)
- 24. In opera, she is foolhardy (4)
- 26. The young are in her clutches (3)
- 27. Say some prayers for the victim! (4)
- 29. A noted piece of engineering in the Netherlands (4)
- 32. Be first in the field at Land's End (4)
- 33. Arrest a bigheaded libertine (5)
- 34. Take off for a bit of fun (6)
- 35. New line for a trooper (8)
- 36. So I end as an inventor (6)
Down
- 1. Employing some of us to sing (5)
- 2. Shoot out of sight (5)
- 3. The master holds it (4)
- 4. What the underpriced bird said at the pet shop? (5)
- 5. The fight for proper money (4)
- 6. Looked lascivious before being led out (6)
- 9. Can staves provide the matchwood for them? (6)
- 11. Less than totally? (3)
- 12. Rings friends out East (5)
- 13. Related to a benevolent revolutionary (7)
- 15. A modern prefix (3)
- 16. Expression of disgust at endlessly bad breath (3)
- 18. Did an absorbing job of cleaning up (6)
- 20. Alternative choice of potherbs (5)
- 21. Don't allow a bachelor to go to the North Pole (3)
- 22. Place for parking one's horse? (3)
- 23. He glared wildly (6)
- 25. Informal talk of many a kind (3)
- 28. With light on, it looks silky (5)
- 30. Rushes to a local game? (5)
- 31. Something to make at the party (5)
- 32. Many are up for sale (4)
- 33. Flier in prison? (4)