Quick Crossword
The Evening Standard's Quick Crossword 20 August 2025 Answers
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1 V
2 F
3 R
A
4 I
L
5 P
6 H
7 P
I
Q
U
E
T
8 D
R
9 O
O
P
L
10 S
A
V
E
11 D
12 O
W
N
13 S
L
14 E
E
P
15 M
E
16 D
D
L
E
D
17 L
A
N
D
E
18 D
19 C
O
D
D
O
T
20 D
E
F
I
N
E
21 D
22 B
23 P
E
E
24 L
P
D
25 D
E
A
R
E
26 R
E
27 C
O
V
E
28 R
T
E
29 A
30 C
O
S
31 D
E
32 L
E
33 T
E
34 S
C
35 A
T
T
E
36 R
37 C
A
R
E
D
38 T
I
E
39 D
U
V
E
T
E
40 W
O
R
R
Y
D
41 D
E
I
T
Y
R
N
42 D
E
F
E
R
H
Across
- 2. Feeble (5)
- 7. Annoyance (5)
- 8. Sag (5)
- 10. Rescued (5)
- 12. Possess (3)
- 13. Slumber (5)
- 15. Interfered (7)
- 17. Alighted (6)
- 19. Fish (3)
- 20. Delineated (7)
- 23. Rind (4)
- 25. Expensive (4)
- 26. Regain (7)
- 30. Lettuce (3)
- 31. Erase (6)
- 34. Broadcast (7)
- 37. Troubled (5)
- 38. Fasten (3)
- 39. Quilt (5)
- 40. Fret (5)
- 41. God (5)
- 42. Postpone (5)
Down
- 1. House (5)
- 2. Melted (5)
- 3. Harvested (6)
- 4. Detail (4)
- 5. Poked (7)
- 6. Sharpened (5)
- 9. Bird (3)
- 11. Determined (7)
- 13. Incline (5)
- 14. Go in (5)
- 16. Fellow (3)
- 18. Ousted (7)
- 21. Dissuade (5)
- 22. Generate (5)
- 24. Reading-desk (7)
- 27. Bed (3)
- 28. Ebb (6)
- 29. Performer (5)
- 32. Subsequently (5)
- 33. Cogs (5)
- 35. Tune (3)
- 36. Discourteous (4)