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Evening Standard Crossword August 28 2026 Answers

Friday puzzle · 128 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 128 clues from the Evening Standard Crossword for August 28 2026. 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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Fashionable41 AcrossReveal answer → Mat34 AcrossReveal answer → Reverse46 AcrossReveal answer → Thoroughfare68 AcrossReveal answer → The complaint about the sliced bacon is going too far99 AcrossReveal answer → Conventional69 AcrossReveal answer → Bird99 AcrossReveal answer → The main abode?910 AcrossReveal answer → Permit310 AcrossReveal answer → Sluggish910 AcrossReveal answer → Bungle412 AcrossReveal answer → Belief512 AcrossReveal answer → Stash away in the cellar?412 AcrossReveal answer → Harsh613 AcrossReveal answer → Put a PS about the roundabout having been very popular?613 AcrossReveal answer → The person disembarking from the boat714 AcrossReveal answer → Postpone514 AcrossReveal answer → Intense714 AcrossReveal answer → Object515 AcrossReveal answer → Sombre information about the young French wine915 AcrossReveal answer → Carry915 AcrossReveal answer → Fortitude917 AcrossReveal answer → With the exterior a write off don't move917 AcrossReveal answer → The son went off and lumbered one with718 AcrossReveal answer → Calm618 AcrossReveal answer → Get718 AcrossReveal answer → Mute619 AcrossReveal answer → Improvised, which compensated for619 AcrossReveal answer → Insect420 AcrossReveal answer → Advantageous620 AcrossReveal answer → Consequently, you repeat, it is only fair420 AcrossReveal answer → Delicacy, father, and limberness are required for it923 AcrossReveal answer → Ignore923 AcrossReveal answer → Principle524 AcrossReveal answer → Conjecture925 AcrossReveal answer → Went through the notes too quickly925 AcrossReveal answer → Poetry526 AcrossReveal answer → Niche426 AcrossReveal answer → Curl up or flatten426 AcrossReveal answer → Shout627 AcrossReveal answer → The lion's running after a girl627 AcrossReveal answer → Torment528 AcrossReveal answer → Spear729 AcrossReveal answer → A seal about to lug off something floating in the water729 AcrossReveal answer → Border330 AcrossReveal answer → He pesters Hill, the advisor932 AcrossReveal answer → Followed932 AcrossReveal answer → Cope632 AcrossReveal answer → Yearly633 AcrossReveal answer → Trade434 AcrossReveal answer → Adult934 AcrossReveal answer → There is the phone the tots were playing with934 AcrossReveal answer → Fasten335 AcrossReveal answer → Snip735 AcrossReveal answer → The note below says "To Wash"735 AcrossReveal answer → Got clear, or was caught636 AcrossReveal answer → Tardy436 AcrossReveal answer → Perches636 AcrossReveal answer → The one that didn't get on with you437 AcrossReveal answer → Departed437 AcrossReveal answer → Not too young to be taught a lesson!938 AcrossReveal answer → Sly938 AcrossReveal answer → Feeling out of sorts in your armchair and uncomfortable?939 AcrossReveal answer → Adequate939 AcrossReveal answer →

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Oriental sword81 DownReveal answer → Having the ticket and the times of the journeys81 DownReveal answer → US city122 DownReveal answer → One may be seen kissing others in the hall122 DownReveal answer → Linger52 DownReveal answer → Animal83 DownReveal answer → Does it complain when the gardener pulls it up?83 DownReveal answer → Yield73 DownReveal answer → Menace64 DownReveal answer → Goes round to get the garments64 DownReveal answer → Stagger44 DownReveal answer → Now revealed to have come out and been followed85 DownReveal answer → Flower85 DownReveal answer → Talent45 DownReveal answer → Number present106 DownReveal answer → With no reduction in the price - and fat it is!106 DownReveal answer → Canal-boat56 DownReveal answer → Design77 DownReveal answer → They don't worry the steeple jack - he has bad sight77 DownReveal answer → Castle77 DownReveal answer → Speed up108 DownReveal answer → Began to trade, perhaps, in beer108 DownReveal answer → Colour511 DownReveal answer → Bird311 DownReveal answer → Extravagant? Wrong again!511 DownReveal answer → Lettuce312 DownReveal answer → Lair313 DownReveal answer → Slice616 DownReveal answer → Encountered316 DownReveal answer → Bringing back rice (about a pound) and a cake616 DownReveal answer → Manage317 DownReveal answer → In spring, is allowed to319 DownReveal answer → Unhappy319 DownReveal answer → Raise719 DownReveal answer → Make clear1221 DownReveal answer → Fixed321 DownReveal answer → Leading, with the hurdle race nearly over1221 DownReveal answer → Everlasting722 DownReveal answer → Excursion622 DownReveal answer → Wobbling for an instant622 DownReveal answer → Untruth323 DownReveal answer → To start with, be embarrassed by the early enthusiasm1023 DownReveal answer → Cheese1023 DownReveal answer → Unintentional1024 DownReveal answer → An attempt to intimidate that doesn't work?1024 DownReveal answer → Total325 DownReveal answer → Watch325 DownReveal answer → Concede the point, on netting it325 DownReveal answer → Tiny527 DownReveal answer → What is harder to explain is I don't know him828 DownReveal answer → Fabled city828 DownReveal answer → Sneak829 DownReveal answer → Begin529 DownReveal answer → Food in aspic?829 DownReveal answer → Offered830 DownReveal answer → Warmth430 DownReveal answer → I need time to consider - switch the light on830 DownReveal answer → Manufactured431 DownReveal answer → Mends731 DownReveal answer → Lures into trouble and one's lad is ruined731 DownReveal answer → "Not even a collar", you say533 DownReveal answer → Better533 DownReveal answer → Get in after tying up the boat634 DownReveal answer → Icy634 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the Evening Standard crossword published on Friday, August 28, 2026. 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.