Welcome to the page with the answers to today's (September 5th 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.
| Game in which a good-looker has the advantage |
| Are within call when there's an allocation |
| Announced, in addition, the figure |
| Use, to get me back, a gambit |
| Setbacks during the spells of batting? |
| Run down deliberately |
| Shoot across to get the tool |
| Did it and was removed forcibly |
| From time to time, working or not |
| Is he not the first to have scratched? |
| Accepted the burden and became boss |
| Called in, dear, to straighten out and it's fixed |
| Shocked by a muffled "It became boring" |
| In the teens, being on the move is great |
| Look flushed and keep badgering on return |
| Can drop the mechanic off and ring |
| Go and spoil |
| Pour a snort to give to the business partner |
| Depict as an attraction |
| A number are surrounded by darting horse flies |
| Insisting that you tell all again |
| The girl with whom I am going back home |
| Make you long to go topless |
| The manner of the fellow has changed when I take over |
| Cheer up when you mention the seaside |
| Does the unauthorised use of material mean there's a plot? |
| Putting a number in an envelope saying "Authorship Unknown" |
| It's always held back when jumpy |
| The combination could be, all round, very, very dangerous |
| It's hard to understand a clergyman's retiring in it |
| See as self-assertion |
| Guide to how old one is, cheapness of passage is |
| Just say what you have in mind |
| He's responsible for her losing her head, I figure |
| Because you promise to give up |
| A post at headquarters |
| Anticipate, as you try to find where the patient is |
| Appropriating your ideas, as you thought |
| Giving water and shade to, was merciful with |
| Expects, when one goes in search of |
| Do, when there's a surprise development |
| Continued with "The amount that wild deer consume" |
| He's in telecommunications, all right |
| He's promised you a ticket |