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Evening Standard Crossword August 16 2019 Answers

Friday puzzle · 130 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 130 clues from the Evening Standard Crossword for August 16 2019. 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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Capture51 AcrossReveal answer → Bundle65 AcrossReveal answer → Reappear58 AcrossReveal answer → Kept quiet and booked99 AcrossReveal answer → Sincere99 AcrossReveal answer → Household pest910 AcrossReveal answer → Skin trouble610 AcrossReveal answer → Favouring the proposal to have an advertising campaign910 AcrossReveal answer → Heroic411 AcrossReveal answer → For the trip in, about one day412 AcrossReveal answer → Legend412 AcrossReveal answer → Caress613 AcrossReveal answer → Make no move to anaesthetise613 AcrossReveal answer → Prime Minister714 AcrossReveal answer → Consuming614 AcrossReveal answer → Shudder at having to compete with the awful child in it714 AcrossReveal answer → The delight you feel when you see your bus coming?915 AcrossReveal answer → Elbowed715 AcrossReveal answer → Same915 AcrossReveal answer → Don’t forget to pick it up again917 AcrossReveal answer → Size917 AcrossReveal answer → Reckoned it means “with a pattern”718 AcrossReveal answer → Rodent318 AcrossReveal answer → Unaffected718 AcrossReveal answer → Rule on, when carrying the raid out619 AcrossReveal answer → Trial619 AcrossReveal answer → Obese319 AcrossReveal answer → Castle420 AcrossReveal answer → Shot back, mad420 AcrossReveal answer → Peruse421 AcrossReveal answer → Sea fruit?923 AcrossReveal answer → Obstructed923 AcrossReveal answer → Sensational523 AcrossReveal answer → Meat424 AcrossReveal answer → A pebble on the beach?925 AcrossReveal answer → Guardian925 AcrossReveal answer → Make the acquaintance of and be full of, on return426 AcrossReveal answer → Ceremony426 AcrossReveal answer → Disease627 AcrossReveal answer → Permit327 AcrossReveal answer → Recommend that you should tell627 AcrossReveal answer → Purplish red729 AcrossReveal answer → Conflict329 AcrossReveal answer → A temp in some hole-in-the-wall job?729 AcrossReveal answer → Brave731 AcrossReveal answer → Poured632 AcrossReveal answer → Thinks up possible reasons for the zero increments?932 AcrossReveal answer → Eternal932 AcrossReveal answer → Travel434 AcrossReveal answer → Nonsense! Go in to hector the demonstrator934 AcrossReveal answer → Certainly934 AcrossReveal answer → Introduce635 AcrossReveal answer → Going through the list, I really enjoy myself735 AcrossReveal answer → Keep under control735 AcrossReveal answer → One son, Nigel: he’s most peculiar636 AcrossReveal answer → Salad plant636 AcrossReveal answer → Metal437 AcrossReveal answer → Hadn’t paid for the round we had437 AcrossReveal answer → Added sugar938 AcrossReveal answer → Lawful538 AcrossReveal answer → About the meal out, say it’s an impasse938 AcrossReveal answer → Grounds for complaint939 AcrossReveal answer → To do with the origins of the money939 AcrossReveal answer → Disclose639 AcrossReveal answer → Trivial540 AcrossReveal answer →

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Running through it, if first given a drink81 DownReveal answer → Hero81 DownReveal answer → Abuse122 DownReveal answer → Means of communicating with the next world?122 DownReveal answer → Curve32 DownReveal answer → Upright83 DownReveal answer → Charge too much83 DownReveal answer → Make63 DownReveal answer → Leisurely walk64 DownReveal answer → Coming a day before the opening64 DownReveal answer → Border34 DownReveal answer → Gratis45 DownReveal answer → Yelled85 DownReveal answer → Editor on a paper that folded, it seemed85 DownReveal answer → Instrument66 DownReveal answer → A certainty that the defendant will be found guilty?106 DownReveal answer → Those taking the blame106 DownReveal answer → Congested67 DownReveal answer → It doesn’t have a bull ring!77 DownReveal answer → Poison77 DownReveal answer → Like a first-class, though useless, gong108 DownReveal answer → 1920s dance108 DownReveal answer → Cautious79 DownReveal answer → The leg that is held up in the picture511 DownReveal answer → Farewell511 DownReveal answer → Equal312 DownReveal answer → Quote413 DownReveal answer → Are crying out for a sun salve616 DownReveal answer → Aim616 DownReveal answer → Formerly416 DownReveal answer → Challenged517 DownReveal answer → Elderly319 DownReveal answer → Person you first have to reckon with319 DownReveal answer → Gigantic720 DownReveal answer → Outdoor sport1221 DownReveal answer → Believed on both occasions one hadn’t acted rashly1221 DownReveal answer → Soon422 DownReveal answer → Neglect622 DownReveal answer → Has been running round again on the beach622 DownReveal answer → Reword1023 DownReveal answer → Get as far as “The others land”1023 DownReveal answer → Improve624 DownReveal answer → He’s left his car behind. There’s nothing unusual in that1024 DownReveal answer → Crossing1024 DownReveal answer → Modest325 DownReveal answer → Get me to meet with, face to face325 DownReveal answer → Pitcher425 DownReveal answer → Shortage626 DownReveal answer → Pure628 DownReveal answer → Manner828 DownReveal answer → Was emphatic that the side isn’t to be beaten828 DownReveal answer → Large hill829 DownReveal answer → Looking very clean, if you’re not quite so hawk-eyed829 DownReveal answer → Agreed830 DownReveal answer → Colour330 DownReveal answer → Is taking part in the procession - absolute heaven!830 DownReveal answer → Said in the letter the bird, a tit, had flown in731 DownReveal answer → Journal731 DownReveal answer → I land up covering for her533 DownReveal answer → Dale433 DownReveal answer → Currency unit533 DownReveal answer → Injury634 DownReveal answer → Where there’s food, an insect will nose about634 DownReveal answer → Pinch336 DownReveal answer → Decay337 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the Evening Standard crossword published on Friday, August 16, 2019. 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.