Evening Standard Crossword December 12 2022 Answers

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Below are all 130 clues from the Evening Standard Crossword for December 12 2022. 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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Avarice51 AcrossReveal answer → Snatches53 AcrossReveal answer → There's a seat for each honoured companion53 AcrossReveal answer → Mountain-peaks65 AcrossReveal answer → A book on Capone, a disreputable American58 AcrossReveal answer → Elbow58 AcrossReveal answer → Masculine58 AcrossReveal answer → Decay610 AcrossReveal answer → On paper, they can make a star out of nothing510 AcrossReveal answer → Lubricated510 AcrossReveal answer → Wicked411 AcrossReveal answer → By quiet hesitation311 AcrossReveal answer → Foot digit311 AcrossReveal answer → Would he bail out a skinhead?512 AcrossReveal answer → Storey512 AcrossReveal answer → Long-lasting713 AcrossReveal answer → It appears to be some orphan named Tom713 AcrossReveal answer → Gift614 AcrossReveal answer → Belief515 AcrossReveal answer → Withdraw715 AcrossReveal answer → Cut, thus causing severe reduction515 AcrossReveal answer → Go wrong out of sheer terror?318 AcrossReveal answer → Golf-peg318 AcrossReveal answer → By way of318 AcrossReveal answer → This appetite is unusual in wild deer619 AcrossReveal answer → Males319 AcrossReveal answer → Spanish woman619 AcrossReveal answer → Nom de plume721 AcrossReveal answer → Don't you need to save any money for them?721 AcrossReveal answer → Cart421 AcrossReveal answer → The whiskey she's short of isn't Scotch422 AcrossReveal answer → Not rich422 AcrossReveal answer → Poison523 AcrossReveal answer → Nuisance423 AcrossReveal answer → Spy going underground423 AcrossReveal answer → A wave of destruction?724 AcrossReveal answer → Small falcon724 AcrossReveal answer → Leader424 AcrossReveal answer → Rapscallion626 AcrossReveal answer → Wealth a drunken sot needs for birds626 AcrossReveal answer → Spot327 AcrossReveal answer → Fix329 AcrossReveal answer → Witch329 AcrossReveal answer → This little chap is wrong a lot329 AcrossReveal answer → Devastated731 AcrossReveal answer → Bedaub531 AcrossReveal answer → Those of a cricket body?531 AcrossReveal answer → Getting dressed makes a famous old model weary732 AcrossReveal answer → Finery732 AcrossReveal answer → Believe632 AcrossReveal answer → My consumption of gin, perhaps, is parsimonious534 AcrossReveal answer → Sand-hill434 AcrossReveal answer → Army officer534 AcrossReveal answer → American tin335 AcrossReveal answer → Loll635 AcrossReveal answer → Harden335 AcrossReveal answer → Food for certain days536 AcrossReveal answer → Brimless cap536 AcrossReveal answer → Was outside the theatre advertising one's needs!537 AcrossReveal answer → Sucrose537 AcrossReveal answer → Dog's lead538 AcrossReveal answer → Nelson Eddy's donkey538 AcrossReveal answer → Perspire538 AcrossReveal answer → Dislike639 AcrossReveal answer → Pretend540 AcrossReveal answer →

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Fact51 DownReveal answer → A start in Greek?51 DownReveal answer → Meataxe72 DownReveal answer → Regret32 DownReveal answer → Valuable pictures of workers in revolution?72 DownReveal answer → Whole63 DownReveal answer → Annoy44 DownReveal answer → Owing34 DownReveal answer → The pantomime dame's cheese?44 DownReveal answer → Encounter45 DownReveal answer → See increases coming at critical moments65 DownReveal answer → Baby's soft shoe65 DownReveal answer → Grinned66 DownReveal answer → Warning device56 DownReveal answer → In tattered galoshes, they spoil the waterproofing56 DownReveal answer → Unclean67 DownReveal answer → Underground drain57 DownReveal answer → Hesitate to be the flag bearer?57 DownReveal answer → And not39 DownReveal answer → It takes but a trice to finish her off!39 DownReveal answer → Imagined79 DownReveal answer → Face cloth712 DownReveal answer → The margins a business head demands?712 DownReveal answer → Tank312 DownReveal answer → Ogle413 DownReveal answer → A shot at goal?314 DownReveal answer → Rubbish receptacle314 DownReveal answer → Relax416 DownReveal answer → A face-saving device, but the knight saw through it516 DownReveal answer → Original516 DownReveal answer → Singer517 DownReveal answer → It's fun to have several during a dance517 DownReveal answer → Flavour517 DownReveal answer → Stifle719 DownReveal answer → Was it on TV for generations?719 DownReveal answer → Practises boxing520 DownReveal answer → Remarkable720 DownReveal answer → The pound sign520 DownReveal answer → Composure521 DownReveal answer → Abandon at the roadside521 DownReveal answer → Fever422 DownReveal answer → Winged horse723 DownReveal answer → Decimal system absurdly claimed to be clinical723 DownReveal answer → Harry624 DownReveal answer → I had bees swarming around right next door!624 DownReveal answer → Martial art624 DownReveal answer → Torn cloth325 DownReveal answer → Imitated425 DownReveal answer → A make-up outfit?325 DownReveal answer → Infer626 DownReveal answer → Fossil resin527 DownReveal answer → Mali's religion?527 DownReveal answer → Desert animal528 DownReveal answer → Tough guy getting a letter from a tennis star528 DownReveal answer → Greet628 DownReveal answer → A recent survey revealed hundreds of them!530 DownReveal answer → Trap330 DownReveal answer → Essential530 DownReveal answer → Elderly to a rising degree!432 DownReveal answer → Decomposes432 DownReveal answer → Managed to get a part in Turandot333 DownReveal answer → Trial433 DownReveal answer → Limb333 DownReveal answer → Lout336 DownReveal answer → Silence337 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the Evening Standard crossword published on Monday, December 12, 2022. 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.