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Evening Standard Crossword August 31 2018 Answers

Friday puzzle · 134 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 134 clues from the Evening Standard Crossword for August 31 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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Belt51 AcrossReveal answer → Undergo65 AcrossReveal answer → Brink58 AcrossReveal answer → Like the tired old cassette?99 AcrossReveal answer → Attacker99 AcrossReveal answer → Oratory810 AcrossReveal answer → Worship610 AcrossReveal answer → Hint that makes clear one should follow810 AcrossReveal answer → Heroic411 AcrossReveal answer → Much the same as “Care to?”412 AcrossReveal answer → Way out412 AcrossReveal answer → It’s a bad start getting one caught in the drawer613 AcrossReveal answer → Platform613 AcrossReveal answer → Spite614 AcrossReveal answer → Having a smell that, from the door, wafts round to us714 AcrossReveal answer → Whim714 AcrossReveal answer → Well-liked715 AcrossReveal answer → So one is bent, then, on entering, to win915 AcrossReveal answer → Bad dream915 AcrossReveal answer → Stick around, mind in a whirl, for the game917 AcrossReveal answer → Decorate917 AcrossReveal answer → With a claret concoction, adding the final note: it’s sweet718 AcrossReveal answer → Moist318 AcrossReveal answer → Freedom718 AcrossReveal answer → Faucet319 AcrossReveal answer → Scamp620 AcrossReveal answer → Then embraced the half-back: a Greek620 AcrossReveal answer → Trade421 AcrossReveal answer → Pace421 AcrossReveal answer → Undecided, to begin with421 AcrossReveal answer → Repulse523 AcrossReveal answer → Dressed424 AcrossReveal answer → Face up to824 AcrossReveal answer → Dig in the cold, having on an Aran woolly824 AcrossReveal answer → Waves826 AcrossReveal answer → Netted more than, when renovated826 AcrossReveal answer → Clamour327 AcrossReveal answer → Resonation428 AcrossReveal answer → Regards as characters, we’re told428 AcrossReveal answer → Task329 AcrossReveal answer → Throwing event629 AcrossReveal answer → Looked, for best end, terribly dear629 AcrossReveal answer → When the cat turning tail gets caught, makes fun of731 AcrossReveal answer → Discouraged731 AcrossReveal answer → Leopard731 AcrossReveal answer → Closed632 AcrossReveal answer → Shocking surprise934 AcrossReveal answer → Plan to get a coloured picture of934 AcrossReveal answer → List434 AcrossReveal answer → Customer635 AcrossReveal answer → Unnamed936 AcrossReveal answer → Doesn’t include, since one doesn’t garage the car936 AcrossReveal answer → How effusive the oil man is?738 AcrossReveal answer → Released538 AcrossReveal answer → Ruler738 AcrossReveal answer → Reserve and you occupy639 AcrossReveal answer → Tower639 AcrossReveal answer → Dexterous639 AcrossReveal answer → Bucket440 AcrossReveal answer → If prepared to cook for the dog440 AcrossReveal answer → Entice540 AcrossReveal answer → Pants841 AcrossReveal answer → Spray against corrosion you have no confidence in841 AcrossReveal answer → Frothy942 AcrossReveal answer → Warns of earthquakes, giving the figures too942 AcrossReveal answer →

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To put it plainly, is a while unconscious81 DownReveal answer → Motherly81 DownReveal answer → Enquiring62 DownReveal answer → Does it cost a fortune to post?62 DownReveal answer → Fasten32 DownReveal answer → Wood83 DownReveal answer → In the game of ours, is beaten by me83 DownReveal answer → Roadway63 DownReveal answer → Dress64 DownReveal answer → Do nothing to give you the impression64 DownReveal answer → Through34 DownReveal answer → Appear45 DownReveal answer → Percussionists85 DownReveal answer → The brat broke, with a stick, the outside light85 DownReveal answer → Frustrated66 DownReveal answer → Another member of the crew - old106 DownReveal answer → Vegetable106 DownReveal answer → Disclose67 DownReveal answer → Took my place so I don’t get into trouble77 DownReveal answer → New Testament books77 DownReveal answer → Open with a blunt corkscrew, to find nothing inside68 DownReveal answer → Swimsuit68 DownReveal answer → Narrated79 DownReveal answer → Is a wrong number, silly!711 DownReveal answer → Maybe711 DownReveal answer → Foot312 DownReveal answer → Quote413 DownReveal answer → List of charges616 DownReveal answer → The coin possibly does contain copper616 DownReveal answer → Egg-shaped416 DownReveal answer → Swift517 DownReveal answer → Soup519 DownReveal answer → Delete the time - a third of a second519 DownReveal answer → Decay320 DownReveal answer → Make up the number320 DownReveal answer → Punishment720 DownReveal answer → Flashlight522 DownReveal answer → Competent422 DownReveal answer → Notices the cupboard522 DownReveal answer → Very thin623 DownReveal answer → How quietly a cat will swoop on prey623 DownReveal answer → Coffin624 DownReveal answer → Colour1025 DownReveal answer → Extracting the information from and leaving1025 DownReveal answer → Half open425 DownReveal answer → Cross mother up326 DownReveal answer → Sorrow626 DownReveal answer → Vehicle326 DownReveal answer → Small stones727 DownReveal answer → Net here will protect the plants727 DownReveal answer → Interior628 DownReveal answer → Wager330 DownReveal answer → Founder830 DownReveal answer → Backs out of the engagement830 DownReveal answer → Seeing “Breakfast Food” up in lights surprises one831 DownReveal answer → Forbid831 DownReveal answer → Impatient832 DownReveal answer → In the old days, would have to root around for food832 DownReveal answer → Flightless bird733 DownReveal answer → Runs, leaving small foot-marks?733 DownReveal answer → Stupid433 DownReveal answer → Implied the sun being out would help?635 DownReveal answer → Brooding635 DownReveal answer → Allow336 DownReveal answer → Gets blazing when one comes upon?636 DownReveal answer → Astray636 DownReveal answer → He’ll have meat - nothing to start with637 DownReveal answer → Public speaker637 DownReveal answer → Pinch337 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the Evening Standard crossword published on Friday, August 31, 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.