Welcome to the page with the answers to today's (April 2nd 2025) clues of Evening Standard Cryptic crossword.

Below is the list of all of today's clues (a total of 44 clues). Just click on a clue to get the answer.

Depend on getting a soft-hearted response
Very close to ten in a trap
As a rule, it's half walled up
Perform a lovely piece solo
Just the chap to play it again?
It means more to a dead-wrong dunderhead
The toff suffered when prevented from winning
After the year's end, a pine can mature
In a race, can it get you nowhere?
Causes some heat by writing on fighting
Originally, points for successfully finishing
Do big ones possess more fire-power?
Turn and leave one learning to be a writer
Refrain from giving a seaman a bad mark
Figure one gets half a dollar
Pitiable quality
The advantage of turning up with a girl
Manage to reach a degree of vegetation
Prohibit bank robbery!
Picture maybe in ropy art
Little city in the central Loire, maybe
Man of stone?
Movingly agreeable looking children's character
Avoid delay, as do journalists getting ahead
Money put into one could have been an asset
A bit of a fight
He'll back a good horse
Ageing, but with an unusually solid head of hair
The part of Mabel, as queen
The one bit of business that's best
Little things that can have ill effects
One out of eight?
Nominally she can only just beat dad
Greyfriars boy?
Trophy worth some cash, essentially?
Much talk of getting asleep
Writers making a fortune around Mile End
It's a matter of keeping cool even when disheartened
Tough, hot-headed, possibly mean fellow
The mien of a broadcaster?
Murphy gets to a top relocation
Is their behaviour revolting?
Little Tony's school
Colourful standard of goodness