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Evening Standard Crossword August 2 2018 Answers

Thursday puzzle · 129 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 129 clues from the Evening Standard Crossword for August 2 2018. 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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Rumour61 AcrossReveal answer → Being badly led, sir, they do nothing effective64 AcrossReveal answer → Handgun64 AcrossReveal answer → Slide45 AcrossReveal answer → Slaughter87 AcrossReveal answer → Early form of knitted garment?87 AcrossReveal answer → The only time one and two don't make three68 AcrossReveal answer → Started58 AcrossReveal answer → Loves intensely68 AcrossReveal answer → Whim39 AcrossReveal answer → Can be sung when taking in air, possibly510 AcrossReveal answer → Tall pole510 AcrossReveal answer → Stud411 AcrossReveal answer → Animal512 AcrossReveal answer → Ship's company413 AcrossReveal answer → Severity613 AcrossReveal answer → Lion wrapped in a sort of cloth!413 AcrossReveal answer → German man414 AcrossReveal answer → A little lake in a quiet part of London414 AcrossReveal answer → The way a pupil can cry415 AcrossReveal answer → Drop415 AcrossReveal answer → Put on316 AcrossReveal answer → Ogle416 AcrossReveal answer → Wail in mimicry316 AcrossReveal answer → State there's nothing but a hothead at Number Ten!417 AcrossReveal answer → Among417 AcrossReveal answer → Pull418 AcrossReveal answer → A home or treatment centre beside the sea419 AcrossReveal answer → Revise419 AcrossReveal answer → Cot320 AcrossReveal answer → Ensure921 AcrossReveal answer → Two garments in one?921 AcrossReveal answer → Wonder322 AcrossReveal answer → Still323 AcrossReveal answer → Though lordly, he's one's equal423 AcrossReveal answer → Lather423 AcrossReveal answer → Only one tooth? A bit of a farce, simply useless!424 AcrossReveal answer → Change direction424 AcrossReveal answer → Prophet424 AcrossReveal answer → Hired425 AcrossReveal answer → Cabin326 AcrossReveal answer → In Snowdonia at present326 AcrossReveal answer → Excessively sentimental427 AcrossReveal answer → There's not much in potato mashing427 AcrossReveal answer → Excite628 AcrossReveal answer → Crossbow arrow429 AcrossReveal answer → As opposed to Windsor?429 AcrossReveal answer → Turn530 AcrossReveal answer → Mark this borough as a resort432 AcrossReveal answer → Legal successor432 AcrossReveal answer → Pole432 AcrossReveal answer → Good people say it533 AcrossReveal answer → Prong433 AcrossReveal answer → Eagle's nest533 AcrossReveal answer → The more competent assembly worker634 AcrossReveal answer → Can334 AcrossReveal answer → Hair colour634 AcrossReveal answer → Downtrodden, the poor fellow went first835 AcrossReveal answer → Memento535 AcrossReveal answer → Delivery charge835 AcrossReveal answer → Suit that cannot be worn, like pumps636 AcrossReveal answer → Raised436 AcrossReveal answer → Venerate636 AcrossReveal answer → Load637 AcrossReveal answer →

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Break violently51 DownReveal answer → Improve61 DownReveal answer → An abandoned fight?51 DownReveal answer → Mischievous bairn, but with intellect52 DownReveal answer → Academy Award52 DownReveal answer → Lineage82 DownReveal answer → They may cover optics43 DownReveal answer → Downcast63 DownReveal answer → Leg part43 DownReveal answer → Discouragement94 DownReveal answer → Being taken along as one goes to a new town54 DownReveal answer → Oyster's gem54 DownReveal answer → A keeper's right45 DownReveal answer → Cold weather45 DownReveal answer → Grant75 DownReveal answer → Tie46 DownReveal answer → Feline mammal66 DownReveal answer → Turn back, or always right around66 DownReveal answer → Twilight47 DownReveal answer → Tucker38 DownReveal answer → Erase, expunge69 DownReveal answer → Richard, in slow motion as Victor Meldrew?69 DownReveal answer → Number311 DownReveal answer → Deprive Roy?311 DownReveal answer → Are out to cheat, love512 DownReveal answer → Deceit512 DownReveal answer → Corpse713 DownReveal answer → Seek a game to play with a fork713 DownReveal answer → Lifelike914 DownReveal answer → Tree315 DownReveal answer → Obese315 DownReveal answer → A sound you could make with a cup315 DownReveal answer → Cease living316 DownReveal answer → Mercator's pet?316 DownReveal answer → Sheep317 DownReveal answer → Boy's title618 DownReveal answer → Maybe a chore for a poet618 DownReveal answer → List819 DownReveal answer → Quick to grow old in outer Ecuador520 DownReveal answer → Epsom horse race520 DownReveal answer → Insect320 DownReveal answer → In life, we don't get many!321 DownReveal answer → Dozed721 DownReveal answer → Intestine321 DownReveal answer → One functions mechanically in the part of Escamillo322 DownReveal answer → Born322 DownReveal answer → Stitch623 DownReveal answer → Contrarily, I'm this when rude!623 DownReveal answer → Boy's name325 DownReveal answer → Fabulous flier from far Oceania325 DownReveal answer → Winnow626 DownReveal answer → Glimpse627 DownReveal answer → For a start, you can mince them!528 DownReveal answer → Flinch528 DownReveal answer → Dress429 DownReveal answer → Keyboard instrument530 DownReveal answer → Weary430 DownReveal answer → Do you hunger to get your feet under it?530 DownReveal answer → Spasm331 DownReveal answer → Nelson Eddy's donkey531 DownReveal answer → Native American tent531 DownReveal answer → Expert activist in the arts?432 DownReveal answer → Gargantuan432 DownReveal answer → Is it fun to eat?433 DownReveal answer → Nobleman433 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the Evening Standard crossword published on Thursday, August 2, 2018. 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.