Evening Standard Crossword December 18 2020 Answers

Friday puzzle · 136 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 136 clues from the Evening Standard Crossword for December 18 2020. 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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Agreeable52 AcrossReveal answer → Run off47 AcrossReveal answer → Provoke68 AcrossReveal answer → Astound59 AcrossReveal answer → Past its best, like the balloon about to pop?99 AcrossReveal answer → Tract of land99 AcrossReveal answer → Oh, back in gaol, having misbehaved? He's thoroughly lawless810 AcrossReveal answer → Eastern810 AcrossReveal answer → Girl's311 AcrossReveal answer → Hello! That means winter's here!412 AcrossReveal answer → Cavern412 AcrossReveal answer → Coming a day before the opening613 AcrossReveal answer → Cushion313 AcrossReveal answer → Frightens613 AcrossReveal answer → Inscription on tombstone714 AcrossReveal answer → She'll tell you your future is entirely in your own hands714 AcrossReveal answer → Imitated415 AcrossReveal answer → Has to have mould - there's nothing else for it915 AcrossReveal answer → South polar region915 AcrossReveal answer → Epoch316 AcrossReveal answer → Railway employee917 AcrossReveal answer → Continuing to put the clothes on the line or waiting917 AcrossReveal answer → Marine invertebrate718 AcrossReveal answer → Otherwise418 AcrossReveal answer → Have the teeniest bit of broth, do718 AcrossReveal answer → Blasphemous719 AcrossReveal answer → Had I not gone off by myself punctually620 AcrossReveal answer → Expensive420 AcrossReveal answer → Sent by mail620 AcrossReveal answer → Is lonely only having left land421 AcrossReveal answer → Whitish421 AcrossReveal answer → Challenge422 AcrossReveal answer → Fell723 AcrossReveal answer → Involving intelligence824 AcrossReveal answer → A ribbon round the royal vessel824 AcrossReveal answer → Gang425 AcrossReveal answer → Unconventional person826 AcrossReveal answer → Were noisy as they formed the queue826 AcrossReveal answer → Hill327 AcrossReveal answer → Having courage, you say, is game428 AcrossReveal answer → Supplant, expel428 AcrossReveal answer → Lake428 AcrossReveal answer → Furtive629 AcrossReveal answer → Moved Enid out to accommodate the child629 AcrossReveal answer → Goat330 AcrossReveal answer → Rough dry cider731 AcrossReveal answer → Very like the gentleman sorting the mail inside731 AcrossReveal answer → Performed331 AcrossReveal answer → Renovate533 AcrossReveal answer → Particularly doctors have to take a decrease934 AcrossReveal answer → Long slender cigar934 AcrossReveal answer → Part636 AcrossReveal answer → Dirty work under cover of night?936 AcrossReveal answer → Large group of musicians936 AcrossReveal answer → Absent437 AcrossReveal answer → Believe to be a regular visitor to our shores738 AcrossReveal answer → Beg538 AcrossReveal answer → Body of citizen soldiers738 AcrossReveal answer → In this case it's raining and everybody goes inside639 AcrossReveal answer → Impulsive639 AcrossReveal answer → Raised mark on skin440 AcrossReveal answer → The name on the hoarding440 AcrossReveal answer → Small crowns841 AcrossReveal answer → Encourage with a ghostly presence?841 AcrossReveal answer → Excited state942 AcrossReveal answer → They can turn gold into silver942 AcrossReveal answer →

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Short and abrupt81 DownReveal answer → Slumber51 DownReveal answer → Holding the ties by the top and bottom81 DownReveal answer → Dark green shrub62 DownReveal answer → Want to reshuffle the side again62 DownReveal answer → Ocean32 DownReveal answer → Refuses to buy in protest83 DownReveal answer → A kindly act that deserves our applause83 DownReveal answer → Vegetable33 DownReveal answer → Expire34 DownReveal answer → Welsh64 DownReveal answer → Giving all one's attention to when camping out64 DownReveal answer → Deed35 DownReveal answer → Is composed85 DownReveal answer → Talk about expense vouchers?85 DownReveal answer → Map-book56 DownReveal answer → Printing machine106 DownReveal answer → Furious when someone's stamped on your toe?106 DownReveal answer → Against military conflict77 DownReveal answer → Making a home in, with the scoundrel77 DownReveal answer → Shrinking from the old crone holding the box68 DownReveal answer → Muslim salutation68 DownReveal answer → Nothing410 DownReveal answer → Fish711 DownReveal answer → Solvent added to paint711 DownReveal answer → Returning home mad and in a daze711 DownReveal answer → Told712 DownReveal answer → Delighted713 DownReveal answer → Erased714 DownReveal answer → The fool with the lollipop?616 DownReveal answer → Long narrow sword616 DownReveal answer → Burst516 DownReveal answer → Following517 DownReveal answer → Finish318 DownReveal answer → Lock of hair519 DownReveal answer → Complete, as you say519 DownReveal answer → Close friend320 DownReveal answer → It's not their turn either to go round320 DownReveal answer → Rank321 DownReveal answer → A seat to put in the sun522 DownReveal answer → Warning device522 DownReveal answer → He had held the arm that was injured623 DownReveal answer → Come into view623 DownReveal answer → Learning424 DownReveal answer → Head troublemaker1025 DownReveal answer → What the compilation of an instruction booklet is?1025 DownReveal answer → Sea inlet326 DownReveal answer → Inflexible526 DownReveal answer → Cross mother up326 DownReveal answer → Anti-aircraft cannons727 DownReveal answer → Getting the garment, I seem to have turned on the central heating727 DownReveal answer → Emulate529 DownReveal answer → Grasp, too, that you approve of830 DownReveal answer → Causing unnecessary fear830 DownReveal answer → Of a certain philosopher831 DownReveal answer → Concealed from or shown to the public831 DownReveal answer → Young horse832 DownReveal answer → Transgress332 DownReveal answer → On balance, not so unable to stay still832 DownReveal answer → Material333 DownReveal answer → Wide-brimmed hat733 DownReveal answer → Large servings of food - old stewed chops733 DownReveal answer → Born334 DownReveal answer → Famous admiral635 DownReveal answer → Lump335 DownReveal answer → The satin's spoiled by the marks635 DownReveal answer → Trying experience636 DownReveal answer → Soak the leg due to be operated on636 DownReveal answer → Is English permissible? Find out637 DownReveal answer → Research dissertation637 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the Evening Standard crossword published on Friday, December 18, 2020. 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.