Welcome to the page with the answers to today's (August 28th 2025) clues of Evening Standard Cryptic crossword.
Below is the list of all of today's clues (a total of 41 clues). Just click on a clue to get the answer.
| Something electrifyingly hairy? |
| Starting with fifty, he returned with nine |
| Legendary builder who redeveloped our slum |
| It's after 51 thousand that there are restrictions |
| By sheltering the sick, make a name |
| It's for water but contains oil |
| Soundly bred on plain food |
| Rested, then returned to an incomplete task |
| I avow it's a southern river! |
| May it form friendship |
| More than plentiful evidence of embroidery skill |
| A number happening to be in the fringes of society |
| Extra soft, with a bit of lustre |
| There's a 'water' kind (in the Euphrates?) |
| I had to back the Gunners to attack |
| Many wage adjustments mean trouble |
| Avoids reading things full of rubbish? |
| Extra terrestrials, as around the Nile, possibly |
| Certainly not the distaff |
| To tease us up is sweet! |
| Some rubbish about a safety device |
| A terrible fire at the end of the street involves repair |
| Lord socially acceptable in disorganised clan |
| Employer of a shifty ruse |
| Harlesden's youth centre? |
| At journey's end, see many looking off-colour |
| Like that Baconian theory, a bit unreliable |
| Speedy winner in a famous car |
| Prevents arrests? |
| Where wintry precipitation's almost done? |
| We hear it has charms |
| Annie's boy? |
| To a medical person, it means scope |
| You can do what you like with it |
| Of the emphatic type? |
| Evidently cereal repast |
| Old place name, rum as can be |
| As used in making pies around Christmas, initially? |
| In which a woman could give herself airs? |
| Busoni piece usually without conductor |
| A black suit |