Cryptic Crossword
The Evening Standard's Cryptic Crossword 29 December 2025 Answers
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1 L
2 A
3 C
4 H
E
5 W
6 S
7 D
8 M
O
9 R
S
E
E
10 H
A
R
R
Y
11 L
O
P
12 N
A
I
A
D
A
13 F
L
E
E
14 C
E
D
15 L
L
16 A
M
17 A
Y
18 C
O
W
19 K
E
Y
M
A
N
20 M
21 S
T
O
P
P
E
R
O
G
22 A
R
C
S
O
E
23 S
U
R
E
O
O
24 T
R
I
P
25 P
E
R
L
26 R
27 E
P
28 O
R
T
29 O
I
L
30 F
31 I
R
E
N
E
32 F
U
N
F
33 A
I
R
E
34 S
A
B
O
T
35 I
C
E
36 O
C
T
E
T
R
37 U
S
E
R
S
T
38 T
Y
R
E
S
H
Y
Across
- 3. Choose a new spelling for `ichamps^i (5)
- 8. A code some get wrong outright! (5)
- 10. Worry a fellow (5)
- 11. Cut short, left work (3)
- 12. Diana as a mythical nymph (5)
- 13. Feel disturbed when you see a chap robbed (7)
- 15. Am all bent on backing the beast! (5)
- 18. Female making a firm point (3)
- 19. A pianist of importance? (3,3)
- 21. Bung very quietly into store, perhaps (7)
- 22. Cars can turn in them (4)
- 23. Fully expected to back us again (4)
- 24. Excursionist coming a cropper? (7)
- 26. The news is bad for a porter (6)
- 29. What the police had on his hair? (3)
- 31. She's a bit of a siren, note (5)
- 32. Where the pleasure is only moderate? (7)
- 34. Something afoot when boats are wrecked (5)
- 35. It's cold, I see, at mid-September (3)
- 36. One of those pieces of eight? (5)
- 37. Wearers of tight trousers (5)
- 38. Their tread is endless (5)
Down
- 1. Sweetie money? (5)
- 2. Views, maybe from space, of planets with no aircraft? (7)
- 4. The nut in charge (4)
- 5. He's after big things at sea (6)
- 6. Deplorably shifty about publicity (5)
- 7. More than one could be produced in Madras (5)
- 9. Animal on toast? (3)
- 12. In Wales and elsewhere, various ways to get a drink (7)
- 14. A sound business letter (3)
- 16. The Francophile's love? (5)
- 17. Changeless good spirit (5)
- 19. Notice it's exclusive! (4,3)
- 20. Moira confused an islander (5)
- 21. If you've vision, there's opportunity (5)
- 23. Greedy where flesh is involved? (7)
- 24. Agreement to try out a new blend of tea (6)
- 25. One in a hole, at golf? (3)
- 27. Standing proudly before the court (5)
- 28. Attack with a stone, possibly? (5)
- 30. Fierce among fishes, that is! (5)
- 32. Warning in advance? (4)
- 33. Card expert (3)