Evening Standard Crossword August 23 2023 Answers

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Below are all 128 clues from the Evening Standard Crossword for August 23 2023. 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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Corny actor in Greater Manchester61 AcrossReveal answer → Clans61 AcrossReveal answer → Nip54 AcrossReveal answer → Assess87 AcrossReveal answer → Chopped67 AcrossReveal answer → Exemplary way to get in position87 AcrossReveal answer → Talks about the great white shark?48 AcrossReveal answer → Manage48 AcrossReveal answer → Pale39 AcrossReveal answer → Narrator610 AcrossReveal answer → For these containers there are a number of charges610 AcrossReveal answer → Frenzied310 AcrossReveal answer → Underground shelter611 AcrossReveal answer → The jump season?611 AcrossReveal answer → Boulder512 AcrossReveal answer → Rushed413 AcrossReveal answer → The sort of profit on fishing equipment?314 AcrossReveal answer → High mountain314 AcrossReveal answer → Taut515 AcrossReveal answer → Giant piece of anti-tank weaponry516 AcrossReveal answer → Biblical prophet516 AcrossReveal answer → Regarded as singularly Cyclops-like417 AcrossReveal answer → Catch sight of417 AcrossReveal answer → Demean617 AcrossReveal answer → Come down and make an exchange out of love519 AcrossReveal answer → Impetuous419 AcrossReveal answer → Writing material519 AcrossReveal answer → Guide520 AcrossReveal answer → A place the French are about sick of?521 AcrossReveal answer → Wading bird521 AcrossReveal answer → Filleted522 AcrossReveal answer → Well known to have done wrong, being out to start trouble522 AcrossReveal answer → Feline322 AcrossReveal answer → Let it stand423 AcrossReveal answer → Unexcited by some musical medley423 AcrossReveal answer → Erased724 AcrossReveal answer → Body cavity526 AcrossReveal answer → Only a sucker would drink with one526 AcrossReveal answer → Lair327 AcrossReveal answer → That woman328 AcrossReveal answer → Memorise528 AcrossReveal answer → Hill has a knockout punch initially328 AcrossReveal answer → Representatives629 AcrossReveal answer → One of the British Isles629 AcrossReveal answer → Non-liquid food630 AcrossReveal answer → Quiet - that's the way to listen!630 AcrossReveal answer → Musical composition means nothing to a Manx cat431 AcrossReveal answer → Assist431 AcrossReveal answer → Nothing431 AcrossReveal answer → Those higher places where learning depends on ignorance832 AcrossReveal answer → Plot a course832 AcrossReveal answer → Confused633 AcrossReveal answer → Ridicule633 AcrossReveal answer → What tub-thumpers do around central Greenford is good to see633 AcrossReveal answer → Antic535 AcrossReveal answer → Harbour437 AcrossReveal answer → Applaud538 AcrossReveal answer → Barrier339 AcrossReveal answer → Objective341 AcrossReveal answer → Summer-house642 AcrossReveal answer → Trade-mark543 AcrossReveal answer →

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An infallible adviser could see this as a little round boat!61 DownReveal answer → Aquatic reptile61 DownReveal answer → Essay61 DownReveal answer → Getting angry is very unpopular out East62 DownReveal answer → Umbrella, informally62 DownReveal answer → Yield62 DownReveal answer → Jewel33 DownReveal answer → Prophet43 DownReveal answer → A failure as a school teacher?43 DownReveal answer → Go by44 DownReveal answer → Father of a TV series74 DownReveal answer → Egg white74 DownReveal answer → Bury55 DownReveal answer → One is about to make a fresh start, though not well55 DownReveal answer → Assignments55 DownReveal answer → Container86 DownReveal answer → Pretend a broken finger has the end missing!56 DownReveal answer → Perceives sound56 DownReveal answer → Applaud48 DownReveal answer → Facts48 DownReveal answer → Tarzan's sweetheart for one short month?48 DownReveal answer → Vitality39 DownReveal answer → What three-fifths of the water will make us?39 DownReveal answer → Dropped911 DownReveal answer → And not312 DownReveal answer → An old reprobate (but still less than mature?)312 DownReveal answer → Provincial fellows in South Africa?513 DownReveal answer → Weird513 DownReveal answer → Act414 DownReveal answer → Seraglio515 DownReveal answer → No weaver bird, but a towel maker515 DownReveal answer → Tidy416 DownReveal answer → Generated418 DownReveal answer → Teenage member from Yarmouth518 DownReveal answer → Small twig518 DownReveal answer → Behave in model fashion (as a squatter?)319 DownReveal answer → Female swan319 DownReveal answer → Not ideally young enough to be back in wedlock?320 DownReveal answer → Seedcase320 DownReveal answer → As one821 DownReveal answer → Kidnapped person721 DownReveal answer → Frowned when a bovine utterance disturbed the deer721 DownReveal answer → Grandma, it seems, is less than magnanimous322 DownReveal answer → Sweet roll322 DownReveal answer → Vender623 DownReveal answer → Inform423 DownReveal answer → Leader, perhaps, associated with Nelson623 DownReveal answer → Lord Greystoke's imitative associates424 DownReveal answer → Stumble424 DownReveal answer → Jump425 DownReveal answer → Struggle625 DownReveal answer → The spirit a man of iron may be said to have625 DownReveal answer → Intense426 DownReveal answer → Holy person526 DownReveal answer → Put up with a caning?526 DownReveal answer → A recovery, but really pointless?527 DownReveal answer → Courage527 DownReveal answer → Garden implement328 DownReveal answer → Take a rest from the part of Nanki-Poo328 DownReveal answer → Worshipped629 DownReveal answer → It's fair to use the same word twice430 DownReveal answer → Cast off430 DownReveal answer → Thought630 DownReveal answer → Sea532 DownReveal answer → Haul434 DownReveal answer → Parched436 DownReveal answer → Chart340 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the Evening Standard crossword published on Wednesday, August 23, 2023. 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.