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Evening Standard Crossword August 16 2024 Answers

Friday puzzle · 130 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 130 clues from the Evening Standard Crossword for August 16 2024. 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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Power51 AcrossReveal answer → Enrol65 AcrossReveal answer → Grant58 AcrossReveal answer → Kept quiet and booked99 AcrossReveal answer → Tepid89 AcrossReveal answer → Dreaded610 AcrossReveal answer → Favouring the proposal to have an advertising campaign910 AcrossReveal answer → Wildebeest310 AcrossReveal answer → Press411 AcrossReveal answer → Colour611 AcrossReveal answer → For the trip in, about one day412 AcrossReveal answer → Conclude612 AcrossReveal answer → Make no move to anaesthetise613 AcrossReveal answer → Communication and contact713 AcrossReveal answer → Shudder at having to compete with the awful child in it714 AcrossReveal answer → Remedy414 AcrossReveal answer → Commotion614 AcrossReveal answer → The delight you feel when you see your bus coming?915 AcrossReveal answer → Senior doctor1015 AcrossReveal answer → Resilient715 AcrossReveal answer → Don’t forget to pick it up again917 AcrossReveal answer → Killer817 AcrossReveal answer → Cot318 AcrossReveal answer → Reckoned it means “with a pattern”718 AcrossReveal answer → Outlandish718 AcrossReveal answer → Rule on, when carrying the raid out619 AcrossReveal answer → Difficult419 AcrossReveal answer → Mournful319 AcrossReveal answer → Shot back, mad420 AcrossReveal answer → Mean621 AcrossReveal answer → Expensive421 AcrossReveal answer → Sea fruit?923 AcrossReveal answer → Revolt523 AcrossReveal answer → Sexist man, commonly1724 AcrossReveal answer → Unhearing424 AcrossReveal answer → A pebble on the beach?925 AcrossReveal answer → Make the acquaintance of and be full of, on return426 AcrossReveal answer → Immerse327 AcrossReveal answer → Recommend that you should tell627 AcrossReveal answer → Insect627 AcrossReveal answer → Competent429 AcrossReveal answer → A temp in some hole-in-the-wall job?729 AcrossReveal answer → Breach329 AcrossReveal answer → Monkeys730 AcrossReveal answer → Titular731 AcrossReveal answer → Summary632 AcrossReveal answer → Thinks up possible reasons for the zero increments?932 AcrossReveal answer → Unmarried Spanish woman833 AcrossReveal answer → Nonsense! Go in to hector the demonstrator934 AcrossReveal answer → Fruit434 AcrossReveal answer → Going through the list, I really enjoy myself735 AcrossReveal answer → Avoided635 AcrossReveal answer → Building worker1035 AcrossReveal answer → One son, Nigel: he’s most peculiar636 AcrossReveal answer → Sicilian volcano436 AcrossReveal answer → Hadn’t paid for the round we had437 AcrossReveal answer → Painkiller737 AcrossReveal answer → Close at hand638 AcrossReveal answer → About the meal out, say it’s an impasse938 AcrossReveal answer → Tree538 AcrossReveal answer → To do with the origins of the money939 AcrossReveal answer → Aptitude639 AcrossReveal answer → Very sad640 AcrossReveal answer → Rot540 AcrossReveal answer → Anger341 AcrossReveal answer → Instances842 AcrossReveal answer →

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Concert hall101 DownReveal answer → Running through it, if first given a drink81 DownReveal answer → Type of house, commonly42 DownReveal answer → Poem32 DownReveal answer → Means of communicating with the next world?122 DownReveal answer → Fondle63 DownReveal answer → Charge too much83 DownReveal answer → Unmarried man83 DownReveal answer → Blend74 DownReveal answer → Sheep34 DownReveal answer → Coming a day before the opening64 DownReveal answer → Conspicuous115 DownReveal answer → Revise45 DownReveal answer → Editor on a paper that folded, it seemed85 DownReveal answer → Towered66 DownReveal answer → A certainty that the defendant will be found guilty?106 DownReveal answer → Sport106 DownReveal answer → Stagger67 DownReveal answer → It doesn’t have a bull ring!77 DownReveal answer → Casual trousers67 DownReveal answer → Duress88 DownReveal answer → Like a first-class, though useless, gong108 DownReveal answer → Recommended79 DownReveal answer → Hard work, commonly510 DownReveal answer → The leg that is held up in the picture511 DownReveal answer → Abrade312 DownReveal answer → Bare413 DownReveal answer → Tardy416 DownReveal answer → Not deep716 DownReveal answer → Are crying out for a sun salve616 DownReveal answer → Hut517 DownReveal answer → Person you first have to reckon with319 DownReveal answer → Ousted720 DownReveal answer → Blacksmith's block520 DownReveal answer → Believed on both occasions one hadn’t acted rashly1221 DownReveal answer → Has been running round again on the beach622 DownReveal answer → Region422 DownReveal answer → Pudding ingredient722 DownReveal answer → Get as far as “The others land”1023 DownReveal answer → Dessert dish1123 DownReveal answer → Leave624 DownReveal answer → He’s left his car behind. There’s nothing unusual in that1024 DownReveal answer → Knowledge1025 DownReveal answer → Get me to meet with, face to face325 DownReveal answer → Old425 DownReveal answer → Front626 DownReveal answer → Soft drink1026 DownReveal answer → Number628 DownReveal answer → Opening828 DownReveal answer → Was emphatic that the side isn’t to be beaten828 DownReveal answer → Looking very clean, if you’re not quite so hawk-eyed829 DownReveal answer → Mine330 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 → U.S. state831 DownReveal answer → Trailblazer732 DownReveal answer → Party433 DownReveal answer → I land up covering for her533 DownReveal answer → Where there’s food, an insect will nose about634 DownReveal answer → Citrus fruit634 DownReveal answer → Canal boat535 DownReveal answer → Youth336 DownReveal answer → Epoch337 DownReveal answer → Mountains439 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the Evening Standard crossword published on Friday, August 16, 2024. 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.