Cryptic Crossword
The Evening Standard's Cryptic Crossword 30 January 2025 Answers
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1 G
2 H
O
3 S
4 T
5 W
6 E
7 T
U
8 D
E
O
9 C
A
B
O
O
S
E
A
10 S
W
E
A
R
M
11 T
R
U
N
K
D
R
12 R
A
M
O
N
G
13 P
A
14 L
A
D
I
N
R
15 M
E
16 W
17 A
H
A
B
G
18 M
I
S
E
R
E
T
B
19 S
H
O
A
L
D
S
20 C
21 R
E
D
I
T
N
22 S
O
23 L
E
24 H
A
L
X
25 B
O
U
N
C
E
R
G
26 O
T
H
E
R
O
G
27 T
U
T
T
I
A
28 S
T
R
A
Y
S
29 T
E
A
R
O
U
T
T
30 S
A
M
O
S
D
31 B
Y
R
O
N
Across
- 1. Spirit of a grand entertainer (5)
- 6. Study in quietude (5)
- 9. Whence the train's guard can cry out, just in case (7)
- 10. Use bad language in the witness box? (5)
- 11. The body in the box (5)
- 12. Man of the manor, maybe, in Spain? (5)
- 13. Gallant chap in pain (7)
- 15. Cry during homework (3)
- 17. Bookish captain's exclamation to a seaman (4)
- 18. What to win when you lose (it's tricky) (6)
- 19. Swimming school (5)
- 20. Belief in direct action! (6)
- 22. Only to lose badly (4)
- 24. Being venerated, he cried (3)
- 25. A resilient chucker-out (7)
- 26. Choice of potherbs (5)
- 27. Played by the band in all-Italian style (5)
- 28. Go off course, say about two-fifths of a metre (5)
- 29. Dash off and obtain a ripping takeaway! (4,3)
- 30. To uncle, a very large Aegean island (5)
- 31. A lord by name (5)
Down
- 2. The way to get had up for riding an elephant (6)
- 3. A crab's in beetle-like form (6)
- 4. Jack may take Paul in (3)
- 5. Am now taking orders for her (5)
- 6. Loiters around a Portuguese resort (7)
- 7. Flier making a sound turn (4)
- 8. It's safer to keep out of it (6)
- 12. Direction of a blow (5)
- 13. A church head has a way round this area (5)
- 14. A tag that upsets Bella (5)
- 15. Wine makes me a bit docile (5)
- 16. Were wrong about Spithead being in Germany! (5)
- 18. House with its own tube station (5)
- 19. Enough neckwear for a decade? (7)
- 21. Sicilian town producing jazz for America? (6)
- 22. Conceited as a midshipman (6)
- 23. Leo gets out a gun with a smooth movement (6)
- 25. Bread product usually with trimmings (5)
- 26. The hot toddy man (4)
- 28. It's paid us to return to Brideshead (3)