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Evening Standard Crossword December 13 2019 Answers

Friday puzzle · 133 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 133 clues from the Evening Standard Crossword for December 13 2019. 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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Choose51 AcrossReveal answer → Sun-bathed65 AcrossReveal answer → Subsequently58 AcrossReveal answer → Building designer99 AcrossReveal answer → Whatever happens with whichever patient99 AcrossReveal answer → Groups610 AcrossReveal answer → “Take the First Step” is a best seller810 AcrossReveal answer → Perfume spray810 AcrossReveal answer → Watched411 AcrossReveal answer → Tense412 AcrossReveal answer → Said every one of them can wield the needle, too412 AcrossReveal answer → Desire for drink613 AcrossReveal answer → Have ambition and, like before, I enter613 AcrossReveal answer → Derelict714 AcrossReveal answer → A minor injury that’s no handicap714 AcrossReveal answer → Harm614 AcrossReveal answer → Used long words when one bragged?915 AcrossReveal answer → Honest715 AcrossReveal answer → Reserve915 AcrossReveal answer → Scent917 AcrossReveal answer → A number having witnessed what happened in917 AcrossReveal answer → Poison718 AcrossReveal answer → Favourite318 AcrossReveal answer → Fill in for salesman number fifty one718 AcrossReveal answer → Tavern319 AcrossReveal answer → By one? Don’t talk rot!620 AcrossReveal answer → Soothing620 AcrossReveal answer → Fruit421 AcrossReveal answer → Lots of trousers421 AcrossReveal answer → Cab421 AcrossReveal answer → Bird523 AcrossReveal answer → Grasped424 AcrossReveal answer → Hated824 AcrossReveal answer → A collector of dirty films824 AcrossReveal answer → A soppy pet?826 AcrossReveal answer → Towelling dressing gown826 AcrossReveal answer → Spot327 AcrossReveal answer → Given a hard time about, in that case428 AcrossReveal answer → Widespread428 AcrossReveal answer → Figure it’s a double-cross629 AcrossReveal answer → Involuntary response629 AcrossReveal answer → Fish329 AcrossReveal answer → Respire731 AcrossReveal answer → Noticed it was speckled731 AcrossReveal answer → Terse731 AcrossReveal answer → Gathered632 AcrossReveal answer → The rep takes a mere flip through the contract934 AcrossReveal answer → Location434 AcrossReveal answer → Punctuation mark934 AcrossReveal answer → Guide635 AcrossReveal answer → Canteen936 AcrossReveal answer → Laughed at for having turned it into a game936 AcrossReveal answer → A vehicle that’s trying to run somebody down?738 AcrossReveal answer → Vigilant538 AcrossReveal answer → Back complaint738 AcrossReveal answer → Worked away at and managed to stabilise prices?639 AcrossReveal answer → Left639 AcrossReveal answer → Steady639 AcrossReveal answer → Move back. It’s right behind440 AcrossReveal answer → Prompt540 AcrossReveal answer → Bill of fare440 AcrossReveal answer → “Sorry” will do, banal though it is841 AcrossReveal answer → Inability to sleep841 AcrossReveal answer → Just so942 AcrossReveal answer → Build942 AcrossReveal answer →

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Microorganisms81 DownReveal answer → Said unfortunately the rest had collapsed: a catastrophe81 DownReveal answer → Supernatural62 DownReveal answer → Untruth32 DownReveal answer → Girl with a figure males are driven crazy by62 DownReveal answer → Grease monkey83 DownReveal answer → Not so wonderful that you can’t leave behind?83 DownReveal answer → Grasp63 DownReveal answer → Sailor34 DownReveal answer → Deprive of food64 DownReveal answer → In view of the fact that one’s dating64 DownReveal answer → Generated45 DownReveal answer → Prodigal85 DownReveal answer → The judge is the twit with the bunch of roses85 DownReveal answer → Appeared66 DownReveal answer → Competition106 DownReveal answer → Stops by, though a toll is exacted from?106 DownReveal answer → Erase67 DownReveal answer → Victors77 DownReveal answer → Keeping the strong obstreperous one inside77 DownReveal answer → Fame68 DownReveal answer → What the dressmaker of yore would busy herself making?68 DownReveal answer → Lingered79 DownReveal answer → The Asian child I had seen running by711 DownReveal answer → Lacking in vitality711 DownReveal answer → Yelp312 DownReveal answer → Facts413 DownReveal answer → Awning616 DownReveal answer → Demands that one does, at once616 DownReveal answer → Island416 DownReveal answer → Enlist517 DownReveal answer → Ledge519 DownReveal answer → Make the spruce sprucer?519 DownReveal answer → Remarkable720 DownReveal answer → Father320 DownReveal answer → A drink, or nip320 DownReveal answer → Not quite surrounding522 DownReveal answer → Scope522 DownReveal answer → Passionate623 DownReveal answer → Say you’re too unhappy to participate in?623 DownReveal answer → Lowly624 DownReveal answer → Minus425 DownReveal answer → He’ll have to take private lessons1025 DownReveal answer → Enthralled1025 DownReveal answer → Stop626 DownReveal answer → Means to consider carefully, you say326 DownReveal answer → Carton326 DownReveal answer → Reversing begins to get one in difficulties727 DownReveal answer → Grapple727 DownReveal answer → Give628 DownReveal answer → Referee's assistant830 DownReveal answer → Permit330 DownReveal answer → No sound and no attempt to see through the blindfold?830 DownReveal answer → Perhaps needs to add going through it was depressing831 DownReveal answer → Mystifying831 DownReveal answer → Appraise832 DownReveal answer → Fed up, made the mistake of having it postponed832 DownReveal answer → Deceased433 DownReveal answer → The facts about disruption in Italy733 DownReveal answer → South American country733 DownReveal answer → Deduce there’s justification635 DownReveal answer → Instant635 DownReveal answer → Opportunity636 DownReveal answer → Stray336 DownReveal answer → Could be young and strong636 DownReveal answer → Thought “I won’t get into trouble”637 DownReveal answer → Finish337 DownReveal answer → Regretful637 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the Evening Standard crossword published on Friday, December 13, 2019. 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.