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Evening Standard Crossword August 14 2020 Answers

Friday puzzle · 130 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 130 clues from the Evening Standard Crossword for August 14 2020. 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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Perspire51 AcrossReveal answer → Lunge65 AcrossReveal answer → Penitent58 AcrossReveal answer → Drying while you’re phoning99 AcrossReveal answer → Bride's 'bottom drawer'99 AcrossReveal answer → Surgical procedure910 AcrossReveal answer → Middle610 AcrossReveal answer → Better than, when it comes to barbering?910 AcrossReveal answer → Poke411 AcrossReveal answer → Delighted to detect, you say412 AcrossReveal answer → Resonation412 AcrossReveal answer → Satisfy613 AcrossReveal answer → Said it’s a surface charm613 AcrossReveal answer → Disturb714 AcrossReveal answer → Consuming614 AcrossReveal answer → After half an hour I send food round to feed714 AcrossReveal answer → A miniature plane, perhaps915 AcrossReveal answer → Discussed715 AcrossReveal answer → Provincial915 AcrossReveal answer → Sets straight on the subject of clothes917 AcrossReveal answer → Able917 AcrossReveal answer → On the day, dead annoyed about its being full of holes718 AcrossReveal answer → Through318 AcrossReveal answer → Godparent718 AcrossReveal answer → An animal and one dicky bird!619 AcrossReveal answer → Leave619 AcrossReveal answer → Barrier319 AcrossReveal answer → Norwegian capital420 AcrossReveal answer → Decline to become enamoured of420 AcrossReveal answer → Adroit421 AcrossReveal answer → Giving a guarantee, which is auspicious923 AcrossReveal answer → Focus attention on923 AcrossReveal answer → Dissuade523 AcrossReveal answer → Network424 AcrossReveal answer → Set off and left after the other three, we’re told925 AcrossReveal answer → Extremely funny925 AcrossReveal answer → Moor by the river bank426 AcrossReveal answer → Spool426 AcrossReveal answer → Aristocracy627 AcrossReveal answer → Lair327 AcrossReveal answer → Even though one has the odd bleat about it627 AcrossReveal answer → Quarters729 AcrossReveal answer → Summit329 AcrossReveal answer → Is he grumbling about the old-fashioned transport?729 AcrossReveal answer → Swung731 AcrossReveal answer → Lent632 AcrossReveal answer → With set ideas, going off to do some bird-watching?932 AcrossReveal answer → Angler932 AcrossReveal answer → Departed434 AcrossReveal answer → Is clearly irritated by and cancels934 AcrossReveal answer → Profusion934 AcrossReveal answer → Amatory635 AcrossReveal answer → An advertisement from “15”?735 AcrossReveal answer → Vertical735 AcrossReveal answer → About a quarter recover? How surprising!636 AcrossReveal answer → Cunning636 AcrossReveal answer → Second-hand437 AcrossReveal answer → Fool who will, given time, get sense437 AcrossReveal answer → Earnest938 AcrossReveal answer → Tree538 AcrossReveal answer → An ally in one form or another938 AcrossReveal answer → US state939 AcrossReveal answer → Pay my debts? Lay off!939 AcrossReveal answer → Fiery639 AcrossReveal answer → Coin540 AcrossReveal answer →

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Deem to be deliberate81 DownReveal answer → Tries81 DownReveal answer → Native language122 DownReveal answer → What happened when the flag was hoisted showing a flower?122 DownReveal answer → Sorrow32 DownReveal answer → Strange83 DownReveal answer → Smiled when the spider got me agitated83 DownReveal answer → Wrong63 DownReveal answer → Regretful64 DownReveal answer → The girl’s been stood up again and that’s tough64 DownReveal answer → Hill34 DownReveal answer → Sort45 DownReveal answer → Paper size85 DownReveal answer → Speak ill of as “a ruddy awful paper”85 DownReveal answer → Rebelled66 DownReveal answer → Prepared the bed for sleeping in – didn’t like it106 DownReveal answer → Type of butterfly106 DownReveal answer → Objective67 DownReveal answer → upcast and carrying an instrument, said hello77 DownReveal answer → Seaman77 DownReveal answer → The old man, like myself, had so healthy an upbringing108 DownReveal answer → Catching108 DownReveal answer → Ebbed79 DownReveal answer → Misses one most, being crazy about511 DownReveal answer → Extremely angry511 DownReveal answer → Knock312 DownReveal answer → Dreadful413 DownReveal answer → Brief one on how to be a substitute?616 DownReveal answer → Expensive616 DownReveal answer → Relax416 DownReveal answer → Old-fashioned517 DownReveal answer → Speck319 DownReveal answer → The girl who took your coat?319 DownReveal answer → Threatened720 DownReveal answer → Meteor1221 DownReveal answer → Spring water1221 DownReveal answer → Repute422 DownReveal answer → Earth622 DownReveal answer → Attempt to get the keys to the garrison622 DownReveal answer → Keenly contested1023 DownReveal answer → Like the shorts dirty from playing football?1023 DownReveal answer → Pester624 DownReveal answer → The salesman’s favourite words? I believe you!1024 DownReveal answer → Brains, commonly1024 DownReveal answer → Dried grass325 DownReveal answer → It is to the point, showing intelligence325 DownReveal answer → Deer425 DownReveal answer → Venerate626 DownReveal answer → Disregard628 DownReveal answer → Persistence828 DownReveal answer → Authorises at last the transplantation of the roses828 DownReveal answer → Productive829 DownReveal answer → Left inside so germs spread, which is stupid829 DownReveal answer → Motorcycle sport830 DownReveal answer → Enclosure330 DownReveal answer → As favours, prepared to keep in store, packaged830 DownReveal answer → “A terrible slob,” I add, “hard to get rid of”731 DownReveal answer → Heavy731 DownReveal answer → A drink before the play533 DownReveal answer → Deceased433 DownReveal answer → Middle Eastern country533 DownReveal answer → Fit for crops634 DownReveal answer → Supports the defensive efforts634 DownReveal answer → Material336 DownReveal answer → Tavern337 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the Evening Standard crossword published on Friday, August 14, 2020. 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.