The Sun Cryptic Crossword 29 August 2025 answers

This puzzle has 26 clues. Select any clue to see its solution and every other puzzle it has appeared in.

26 clues13×13 gridShortest here · ASSLongest here · ABOUTFACE

The completed grid

26 entries, 12 across and 14 down. Reveal to fill in every solution.

1S2M3F4C5M6I7P8CLAMOUR9INDIAACRILOS10BLAME11MEASLESBREN12ABOU13TFACE14AS15SROASCO16DON17PO18STERIORWKDC19PO20STAGE21SPREEEOTWNAR22STAVE23EXAMINETKRRGNR

All 26 clues

Complaints in Conservative-Liberal relationship (7)7 letters Subcontinental XI after hotel? (5)5 letters Britain weak: find fault (5)5 letters Disease sees lamb almost destroyed (7)7 letters A fight with mug brings change of attitude (5-4)9 letters A s-s-silly person (3)3 letters Oxbridge lecturer in river (3)3 letters Advertisement about Spanish river's bottom (9)9 letters Dodgy Gestapo delivery charges (7)7 letters See pair inside having boozy time (5)5 letters Trump initially brought in to cut back staff (5)5 letters Test shaft on chopper sent back (7)7 letters What might be foil cover? (8)8 letters Dark red wrapping around biscuit (8)8 letters Bad driver's shout? (4)4 letters Felony here discussed in Bow and Yalta locale (6)6 letters Italian enamel is used imaginatively (8)8 letters Star shown up in cello display (4)4 letters Refuse Mastermind question: get through? (4)4 letters Drain fluid: this suitable for drinking? (3,5)8 letters Pollutant in a Channel Islands sewer? (4,4)8 letters Bad speller? (8)8 letters Spear seabird we hear (6)6 letters Bother minister ignoring religious instruction (4)4 letters Wet top of sycamore tree (4)4 letters Some began slowly reversing difficulty (4)4 letters

The shortest answer in the 29 August 2025 The Sun Cryptic Crossword is ASS and the longest is ABOUTFACE. Looking for an older grid? Every puzzle is filed in the The Sun Cryptic Crossword archive.