Evening Standard Crossword April 3 2026 Answers

Friday puzzle · 131 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 131 clues from the Evening Standard Crossword for April 3 2026. Stuck on one? Click the clue to reveal its verified answer, plus every other answer that clue has had across every publisher in our database.

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Lead53 AcrossReveal answer → Children's game89 AcrossReveal answer → Established69 AcrossReveal answer → The animal, stake to a pole, foolishly89 AcrossReveal answer → Feverish610 AcrossReveal answer → Rod will give the signal310 AcrossReveal answer → Play on words310 AcrossReveal answer → It's egg and meat for him611 AcrossReveal answer → Tropical shrub611 AcrossReveal answer → Pale511 AcrossReveal answer → A small and a large shoe612 AcrossReveal answer → Putrid612 AcrossReveal answer → Impel412 AcrossReveal answer → Disgust you and you drive off713 AcrossReveal answer → Spotted horse713 AcrossReveal answer → A clue that there's a dog about?414 AcrossReveal answer → Leader of Muslim prayer414 AcrossReveal answer → Warmly generous1015 AcrossReveal answer → Lack of reaction to the negative answer1015 AcrossReveal answer → Rodents415 AcrossReveal answer → Step717 AcrossReveal answer → Attending only some? Never!817 AcrossReveal answer → Precious stone817 AcrossReveal answer → Tees off munching sweets718 AcrossReveal answer → Cunning718 AcrossReveal answer → Tire and tell the driver to stop419 AcrossReveal answer → Flesh hanging from jaw419 AcrossReveal answer → Novel320 AcrossReveal answer → Certainly621 AcrossReveal answer → Notify when attending class621 AcrossReveal answer → Keen521 AcrossReveal answer → Grumble423 AcrossReveal answer → Four-yearly sports event1724 AcrossReveal answer → Getting better personally at concealing discomfiture1724 AcrossReveal answer → Haze425 AcrossReveal answer → Produce526 AcrossReveal answer → He's after you to get a second drink627 AcrossReveal answer → Complains peevishly627 AcrossReveal answer → Insect328 AcrossReveal answer → So abandoned the son, in that case429 AcrossReveal answer → Prophet429 AcrossReveal answer → Wandering730 AcrossReveal answer → For lace, it's unusually stretchy730 AcrossReveal answer → Flightless marine bird730 AcrossReveal answer → A man friend, usually833 AcrossReveal answer → Thought433 AcrossReveal answer → Magnificence833 AcrossReveal answer → Thoroughfare435 AcrossReveal answer → Individual dates of birth of celebrities1035 AcrossReveal answer → Grotesquely unconventional1035 AcrossReveal answer → Be inclined to rely on others436 AcrossReveal answer → Divide536 AcrossReveal answer → Inspection436 AcrossReveal answer → The attendants give nothing away737 AcrossReveal answer → Omnivorous mammal737 AcrossReveal answer → Cheap and showy638 AcrossReveal answer → Continued638 AcrossReveal answer → Also swinging on the bar638 AcrossReveal answer → Exhausted639 AcrossReveal answer → Intended540 AcrossReveal answer → Unit of astronomical distance640 AcrossReveal answer → In a plot that's convoluted, is the potential killer640 AcrossReveal answer → Organ of balance341 AcrossReveal answer → Agree the fellow must retire341 AcrossReveal answer → Football official842 AcrossReveal answer → The sounds of cow-bells with which boatmen are familiar?842 AcrossReveal answer →

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Pleasure-seeking101 DownReveal answer → Unpopular for breeding skunks?101 DownReveal answer → Drug51 DownReveal answer → Brief theatrical sketch42 DownReveal answer → A man now is boss42 DownReveal answer → Dance52 DownReveal answer → Plentiful83 DownReveal answer → Having piled all the wood outside, slump on the ground83 DownReveal answer → Meadow33 DownReveal answer → Stewed fruit dish74 DownReveal answer → It's having clothes on that's tiresome74 DownReveal answer → Ascertain64 DownReveal answer → Cast45 DownReveal answer → Condense115 DownReveal answer → Neither sickly nor naughty, which is fine in its own way115 DownReveal answer → Chicken36 DownReveal answer → Gymnastic feat106 DownReveal answer → What made the plane burst into flames?106 DownReveal answer → Blemish57 DownReveal answer → Dissolute67 DownReveal answer → A ticket to France and somewhere to stay67 DownReveal answer → Twist58 DownReveal answer → Conflict88 DownReveal answer → He put a new ending to "The Shopkeeper"88 DownReveal answer → Manage to hide a second in the wood510 DownReveal answer → Appeal humbly510 DownReveal answer → Revoke713 DownReveal answer → Composition514 DownReveal answer → The consequences of having possessions716 DownReveal answer → Chief716 DownReveal answer → Some716 DownReveal answer → Bird518 DownReveal answer → Jewel319 DownReveal answer → Does he get under one's skin?520 DownReveal answer → Speak520 DownReveal answer → Lesser deity722 DownReveal answer → See fair play in the nursery722 DownReveal answer → Emulate522 DownReveal answer → Filled with admiration1123 DownReveal answer → Good-looking girl with a lot of money1123 DownReveal answer → Large324 DownReveal answer → Branch of medicine1025 DownReveal answer → Most promising, no doubt1025 DownReveal answer → Flow of air behind moving object1026 DownReveal answer → All right, if it's not too dark1026 DownReveal answer → Forced627 DownReveal answer → Passage528 DownReveal answer → Scolding woman828 DownReveal answer → Having caught the fish, skedaddled828 DownReveal answer → Taut529 DownReveal answer → Accepted531 DownReveal answer → Making rigorous demands831 DownReveal answer → Expects, when on tries to find831 DownReveal answer → Surrendered532 DownReveal answer → Heartlessly732 DownReveal answer → Suppose the lost purse were found by me?732 DownReveal answer → Not speaking about in time634 DownReveal answer → Fairly recently made634 DownReveal answer → Paddle434 DownReveal answer → Smell535 DownReveal answer → Appeal to you to get through an apple a day535 DownReveal answer → Border336 DownReveal answer → Newt337 DownReveal answer → Compass point439 DownReveal answer → Put face upwards439 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the Evening Standard crossword published on Friday, April 3, 2026. Answers are checked against the completed grid before publishing and live on each clue's own page, so you only see the solutions you ask for. If a clue looks familiar, open it — the same wording often runs in other puzzles with a different answer, and the clue page shows every version we have on record.