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Evening Standard Crossword December 22 2023 Answers

Friday puzzle · 130 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 130 clues from the Evening Standard Crossword for December 22 2023. 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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Tremble61 AcrossReveal answer → Blemish45 AcrossReveal answer → Pummel58 AcrossReveal answer → Spent99 AcrossReveal answer → Curve39 AcrossReveal answer → He’s not wrong to shoot without further ado99 AcrossReveal answer → Cede910 AcrossReveal answer → If not, I swore to release the captive910 AcrossReveal answer → Monster410 AcrossReveal answer → Stop411 AcrossReveal answer → The very best place for retirement412 AcrossReveal answer → Catch sight of412 AcrossReveal answer → Command512 AcrossReveal answer → About to get drinks for everyone613 AcrossReveal answer → Record cover613 AcrossReveal answer → Summary613 AcrossReveal answer → A loud “Not just an amusement park”714 AcrossReveal answer → Paper-folding714 AcrossReveal answer → Angry, bring the new list in915 AcrossReveal answer → Morning meal915 AcrossReveal answer → Ringlet416 AcrossReveal answer → Culminating917 AcrossReveal answer → Quiet when the English lesson is in progress outside917 AcrossReveal answer → Acknowledgment of payment718 AcrossReveal answer → Perceive418 AcrossReveal answer → Hires someone who is promising?718 AcrossReveal answer → Cotton fabric619 AcrossReveal answer → Either pickled or cooked619 AcrossReveal answer → East Asian connection, we hear420 AcrossReveal answer → Serpent320 AcrossReveal answer → Italian wine420 AcrossReveal answer → Jeer322 AcrossReveal answer → Yeoman warder923 AcrossReveal answer → Groove323 AcrossReveal answer → Fielder taking a little break923 AcrossReveal answer → Assert424 AcrossReveal answer → Stump425 AcrossReveal answer → Snugly settled925 AcrossReveal answer → Many Italians could be Spanish925 AcrossReveal answer → It’s not turning the key that made the sound426 AcrossReveal answer → Italian capital426 AcrossReveal answer → Smear627 AcrossReveal answer → Complained that Monsieur had done a lift627 AcrossReveal answer → Boil628 AcrossReveal answer → Genuine729 AcrossReveal answer → Excited, got all mixed up729 AcrossReveal answer → Filch530 AcrossReveal answer → Footwear432 AcrossReveal answer → Dismissed, as it resulted932 AcrossReveal answer → Daring932 AcrossReveal answer → Nearest433 AcrossReveal answer → Fruit934 AcrossReveal answer → Manage334 AcrossReveal answer → Acquires and takes round the tea bags934 AcrossReveal answer → Spear535 AcrossReveal answer → Subjugate735 AcrossReveal answer → Prepared to fly the sick in735 AcrossReveal answer → Level436 AcrossReveal answer → In the money – an American member of the family636 AcrossReveal answer → Fame636 AcrossReveal answer → Zephyr637 AcrossReveal answer → Sallow437 AcrossReveal answer → Said it’s the entire space437 AcrossReveal answer → Conceitedness938 AcrossReveal answer → Laughs at, it’s clear, the clues I make up938 AcrossReveal answer → The jewellery and carved belts, run in to get939 AcrossReveal answer → Remember939 AcrossReveal answer →

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A light wine, adequate for what’s required of it81 DownReveal answer → Month81 DownReveal answer → Prawns61 DownReveal answer → Resigning and going to a lower walk of life?122 DownReveal answer → Dessert topping122 DownReveal answer → Augment82 DownReveal answer → Attacks the badly-run pub, firstly: castigates it83 DownReveal answer → Dependable83 DownReveal answer → Foreign63 DownReveal answer → Had called at half past and mended the racket64 DownReveal answer → Period before Christmas64 DownReveal answer → Complaining94 DownReveal answer → To put it briefly, the shape the homes are in85 DownReveal answer → Liquids85 DownReveal answer → Spotter75 DownReveal answer → Sear46 DownReveal answer → An inability to keep still that betokens dishonesty?106 DownReveal answer → Things taking precedence106 DownReveal answer → Ceremony47 DownReveal answer → I do concede it was given to77 DownReveal answer → Fish-eating bird77 DownReveal answer → For38 DownReveal answer → What made the financier so gloomy?108 DownReveal answer → Invention, informally108 DownReveal answer → Furious, I rebuke511 DownReveal answer → Preliminary sketch511 DownReveal answer → Matter914 DownReveal answer → Choose315 DownReveal answer → Cutlery items616 DownReveal answer → Are they worn by drunks?616 DownReveal answer → Decay317 DownReveal answer → Would be a fool to weaken319 DownReveal answer → Sink819 DownReveal answer → Spoil319 DownReveal answer → Welcome320 DownReveal answer → Footballer1221 DownReveal answer → Changeable721 DownReveal answer → For the ebbing waves, is it the turn of the tide?1221 DownReveal answer → Eye part622 DownReveal answer → Search about in, for polish622 DownReveal answer → What the TV repairer gets, when he tackles jobs?1023 DownReveal answer → Petty official1023 DownReveal answer → Percussion instrument1024 DownReveal answer → Completely hot, will melt, more or less1024 DownReveal answer → Left in the chilled fish325 DownReveal answer → Female sheep325 DownReveal answer → Sour626 DownReveal answer → Skip627 DownReveal answer → Tactful828 DownReveal answer → Prepared to make a scene about the wallet828 DownReveal answer → Island429 DownReveal answer → Snack item829 DownReveal answer → Being, despite everything, almost sure, the girl and boy follow829 DownReveal answer → Fish430 DownReveal answer → Weather830 DownReveal answer → Create a draught that you could do without?830 DownReveal answer → Set up a trap you long to attract with731 DownReveal answer → Punish severely731 DownReveal answer → Shelter331 DownReveal answer → Giver533 DownReveal answer → Decreed it should be under the dominion of533 DownReveal answer → Sounds like fruit, to the ear634 DownReveal answer → Larder634 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the Evening Standard crossword published on Friday, December 22, 2023. 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.