Cryptic Crossword
The Evening Standard's Cryptic Crossword 9 February 2026 Answers
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1 F
2 R
O
3 T
4 H
5 U
6 S
7 O
U
8 T
H
I
9 R
O
U
S
I
N
G
U
10 S
N
O
O
P
A
11 A
L
A
R
M
G
J
12 A
G
A
P
E
P
13 D
E
14 B
A
C
L
E
P
15 F
I
16 B
17 I
R
O
N
I
18 B
E
G
O
N
E
T
N
19 S
A
V
E
D
L
V
20 C
21 H
U
M
P
S
V
22 F
I
23 F
I
24 H
I
S
A
25 B
A
L
L
O
O
N
T
26 T
R
O
O
N
E
U
27 F
L
O
A
T
W
28 W
E
L
L
Y
E
29 P
A
C
I
F
I
C
E
30 G
R
E
E
N
E
31 T
E
D
D
Y
Across
- 1. One of the beer drinker's overheads? (5)
- 6. Unfairly shut out for nothing, in a way (5)
- 9. Exciting or possibly exploiting (7)
- 10. Be curiously intrusive (5)
- 11. Fear of not having a right arm? (5)
- 12. Open a page mistakenly (5)
- 13. Breakdown of French cable system (7)
- 15. Deception by the FBI? (3)
- 17. An element of helpfulness in diet (4)
- 18. Appeal to a person to buzz off (6)
- 19. Spared some terrible devastation (5)
- 20. Fatheads' afterthought for a friend (6)
- 22. She's built rather like Mimi or Gigi (4)
- 24. Her denial helped make history (3)
- 25. One sustained by so much hot air? (7)
- 26. Where you can get torn to pieces out of the ring! (5)
- 27. Drift aloft, perhaps (5)
- 28. Points to the fully finished boot (5)
- 29. Tending to calm water (7)
- 30. Woods, in two senses, may be seen near one (5)
- 31. Stuffy fellow possibly cuddled a lot (5)
Down
- 2. Substitute campanologist? (6)
- 3. One who worked like a horse? (6)
- 4. The flight of Sancho Panza (3)
- 5. Superior and wise custom? (5)
- 6. What the cur did when photographed (7)
- 7. Look round to leg, perhaps? (4)
- 8. A highwayman, but did he turn out pious? (6)
- 12. Passing under the name of 'Aka'? (5)
- 13. Dump at the roadside (5)
- 14. Benefit of getting ahead in transport (5)
- 15. What's been written of oil spillage? (5)
- 16. As a statesman, Ernest ... (5)
- 18. ... was rather like Aneurin (5)
- 19. Ancient skill in bridge building (7)
- 21. Dictator affected by the French Revolution, initially (6)
- 22. Rob of a coat (6)
- 23. The rotten fellow tripped up! (6)
- 25. Kind of knife with a curve, that is (5)
- 26. Something binding on record? (4)
- 28. White? Not he, the clever fellow! (3)