Evening Standard Crossword August 16 2024 Answers

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Below are all the Evening Standard Crossword August 16 2024 answers. The Friday puzzle has 130 clues; every answer has been verified. Click any clue to see every answer it has ever had, across every publisher in our database.

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PowerFORCE5Across1 EnrolENLIST6Across5 GrantAWARD5Across8 Kept quiet and bookedPRESERVED9Across9 TepidLUKEWARM8Across9 DreadedFEARED6Across10 Favouring the proposal to have an advertising campaignPROMOTION9Across10 WildebeestGNU3Across10 PressIRON4Across11 ColourYELLOW6Across11 For the trip in, about one dayRIDE4Across12 ConcludeFINISH6Across12 Make no move to anaesthetiseFREEZE6Across13 Communication and contactLIAISON7Across13 Shudder at having to compete with the awful child in itVIBRATE7Across14 RemedyCURE4Across14 CommotionTUMULT6Across14 The delight you feel when you see your bus coming?TRANSPORT9Across15 Senior doctorCONSULTANT10Across15 ResilientELASTIC7Across15 Don’t forget to pick it up againRECOLLECT9Across17 KillerASSASSIN8Across17 CotBED3Across18 Reckoned it means “with a pattern”FIGURED7Across18 OutlandishBIZARRE7Across18 Rule on, when carrying the raid outORDAIN6Across19 DifficultHARD4Across19 MournfulSAD3Across19 Shot back, madSTAB4Across20 MeanINTEND6Across21 ExpensiveDEAR4Across21 Sea fruit?CRABAPPLE9Across23 RevoltREBEL5Across23 Sexist man, commonlyMALECHAUVINISTPIG17Across24 UnhearingDEAF4Across24 A pebble on the beach?SANDSTONE9Across25 Make the acquaintance of and be full of, on returnMEET4Across26 ImmerseDIP3Across27 Recommend that you should tellADVISE6Across27 InsectEARWIG6Across27 CompetentABLE4Across29 A temp in some hole-in-the-wall job?STOPGAP7Across29 BreachGAP3Across29 MonkeysBABOONS7Across30 TitularNOMINAL7Across31 SummaryPRECIS6Across32 Thinks up possible reasons for the zero increments?THEORISES9Across32 Unmarried Spanish womanSENORITA8Across33 Nonsense! Go in to hector the demonstratorPROTESTER9Across34 FruitDATE4Across34 Going through the list, I really enjoy myselfROISTER7Across35 AvoidedELUDED6Across35 Building workerBRICKLAYER10Across35 One son, Nigel: he’s most peculiarSINGLE6Across36 Sicilian volcanoETNA4Across36 Hadn’t paid for the round we hadOWED4Across37 PainkillerASPIRIN7Across37 Close at handNEARBY6Across38 About the meal out, say it’s an impasseSTALEMATE9Across38 TreeCEDAR5Across38 To do with the origins of the moneyRESOURCES9Across39 AptitudeTALENT6Across39 Very sadTRAGIC6Across40 RotDECAY5Across40 AngerIRE3Across41 InstancesEXAMPLES8Across42

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Concert hallAUDITORIUM10Down1 Running through it, if first given a drinkAPERITIF8Down1 Type of house, commonlySEMI4Down2 PoemODE3Down2 Means of communicating with the next world?DEADLANGUAGE12Down2 FondleCARESS6Down3 Charge too muchOVERLOAD8Down3 Unmarried manBACHELOR8Down3 BlendAMALGAM7Down4 SheepEWE3Down4 Coming a day before the openingADVENT6Down4 ConspicuousOUTSTANDING11Down5 ReviseEDIT4Down5 Editor on a paper that folded, it seemedAPPEARED8Down5 ToweredLOOMED6Down6 A certainty that the defendant will be found guilty?CONVICTION10Down6 SportGYMNASTICS10Down6 StaggerTOTTER6Down7 It doesn’t have a bull ring!COWBELL7Down7 Casual trousersSLACKS6Down7 DuressCOERCION8Down8 Like a first-class, though useless, gongUNBEATABLE10Down8 RecommendedADVISED7Down9 Hard work, commonlyGRAFT5Down10 The leg that is held up in the pictureIMAGE5Down11 AbradeRUB3Down12 BareNUDE4Down13 TardyLATE4Down16 Not deepSHALLOW7Down16 Are crying out for a sun salveSCREAM6Down16 HutCABIN5Down17 Person you first have to reckon withONE3Down19 OustedDEPOSED7Down20 Blacksmith's blockANVIL5Down20 Believed on both occasions one hadn’t acted rashlyTHOUGHTTWICE12Down21 Has been running round again on the beachASHORE6Down22 RegionAREA4Down22 Pudding ingredientTAPIOCA7Down22 Get as far as “The others land”COMETOREST10Down23 Dessert dishBANANASPLIT11Down23 LeaveDEPART6Down24 He’s left his car behind. There’s nothing unusual in thatPEDESTRIAN10Down24 KnowledgeCOGNISANCE10Down25 Get me to meet with, face to faceSEE3Down25 OldAGED4Down25 FrontFACADE6Down26 Soft drinkGINGERBEER10Down26 NumberFIGURE6Down28 OpeningAPERTURE8Down28 Was emphatic that the side isn’t to be beatenINSISTED8Down28 Looking very clean, if you’re not quite so hawk-eyedSPOTLESS8Down29 MinePIT3Down30 Is taking part in the procession - absolute heaven!PARADISE8Down30 Said in the letter the bird, a tit, had flown inWRITTEN7Down31 U.S. stateARKANSAS8Down31 TrailblazerPIONEER7Down32 PartySECT4Down33 I land up covering for herERICA5Down33 Where there’s food, an insect will nose aboutPANTRY6Down34 Citrus fruitORANGE6Down34 Canal boatBARGE5Down35 YouthLAD3Down36 EpochERA3Down37 MountainsALPS4Down39

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This page lists every clue and answer from the Evening Standard crossword published on Friday, August 16, 2024. Answers are checked against the completed grid before publishing. 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.