Cryptic Crossword
The Evening Standard's Cryptic Crossword 31 March 2025 Answers
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1 J
O
I
2 N
E
3 R
4 T
5 A
6 I
O
A
7 A
M
E
R
I
C
A
N
S
8 S
P
9 R
Y
A
U
A
10 E
L
O
P
E
S
11 K
I
12 T
T
13 E
N
P
14 Y
E
P
15 D
16 L
I
E
G
E
17 H
18 E
A
R
19 C
O
20 V
E
N
R
X
21 F
O
Y
E
R
E
T
22 T
I
B
E
T
23 P
24 E
T
25 S
26 E
R
27 R
O
R
N
28 P
E
G
A
29 P
A
I
N
E
D
30 B
E
G
G
E
D
S
D
M
31 A
R
T
S
D
32 O
P
E
R
A
T
O
R
O
E
M
R
N
33 T
O
P
P
E
R
Across
- 1. Worker forming a union (6)
- 7. Western, possibly in Cinerama (8)
- 8. Sprightly, but not unusually light (4)
- 10. Runs away with the idea of getting into partnership (6)
- 11. It's in Kent, perhaps, this animal is found (6)
- 14. It's positively informal (3)
- 16. Historically lordly part of Belgium (5)
- 17. Learn from a hotheaded listener (4)
- 19. The witches' little cavern at the end of the garden (5)
- 21. Room for a theatrical entrance (5)
- 22. In the East, back it for a gamble (5)
- 23. Little darlings prepared to be a pest? (4)
- 26. To a point, basic education about love is a mistake (5)
- 28. The girl to fix things (3)
- 29. How it hurt dad to upset Enid (6)
- 30. Got breakfast in bed for nothing (6)
- 31. They have their masters (4)
- 32. Poor rate negotiated for a worker (8)
- 33. It's high on the list of headgear (6)
Down
- 1. He's just beginning to have wild hopes (6)
- 2. Sleepy head? (6)
- 3. Light to raise, say? (4)
- 4. Does it follow the film advertised? (7)
- 5. To be sharp, one needs to be clever (5)
- 6. One article in nine, perhaps, is pretty stupid (5)
- 8. It's saucily associable with Chinese cookery (4)
- 9. Travelling salesman's stuff (3)
- 12. An element of impertinence (3)
- 13. Bird finally perching in a gnarled tree (5)
- 15. Maybe of pensionable age, he still has to work for his money (5)
- 18. Run a bit more (5)
- 19. That nut in Company B (3)
- 20. The little old soldier coveted taking a girl out (3)
- 21. One who can go to blazes? (7)
- 22. Express speed from Euston (3)
- 23. Father's about to get upset with a revolutionary toy (3-3)
- 24. They may be to a poacher's taste (4)
- 25. So loveless, the viper's relatively unhappy (6)
- 26. Where to race to compose poems? (5)
- 27. Motorcyle courier's free half of beer (5)
- 28. For each childless person (3)
- 30. Familiar fellow's inherited title (4)