| COLONELBLIMP | Cartoon character David Low first drew for the London Evening Standard in the 1930s |
| BLIMP | Pompous moustachioed military man created by New Zealand cartoonist David Low for the London Evening Standard in 1934 (7,5) |
| COLONEL | Pompous moustachioed military man created by New Zealand cartoonist David Low for the London Evening Standard in 1934 (7,5) |
| AVON | Warwick coachworks that made bodies for Standard in the 1930s (4) |
| SUBEDITOR | Style expert for the London Evening News |
| TWELVES | Big, Little and Flying cars from Standard in the Thirties (7) |
| NAST | Who first drew the GOP elephant |
| ANNIE | $2000 Omaha High-Low (first name)* |
| BRETT | $5000 Omaha High-Low (first name)* |
| PATRIOT | Class of express passenger steam locomotive built in the 1930s for the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (7) |
| TUBE | Informal word for the London Underground; or, a flexible container for toothpaste or a rigid one for Smarties, for example (4) |
| TUTIN | Dorothy ____ won her first Evening Standard best actress award for playing Viola in the 1960 RSC production of Twelfth Night |
| MCELVOY | Anne ___, journalist for The Economist and the Evening Standard married to Sunday Times editor Martin Ivens |
| PENNANT | Flag-bearing model for Standard in the late 1950s? (7) |
| PROUD | Heather Small song used as the theme for the London 2012 bid |
| OSBORNE | George, former Conservative MP for Tatton who was editor of the Evening Standard from 2017-2020 (7) |
| INTHEWET | Nevil Shute novel featuring the character David Anderson (2,3,3) |
| OLEANNA | Two-character David Mamet play set in a professor's office |
| MAD | Illustrator Jack Davis drew for which wacky magazine for almost 50 years? (3) |
| SPARSE | Standards in the Southeast could be thin on the ground (6) |
