Evening Standard Crossword December 24 2019 Answers

Tuesday puzzle · 126 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 126 clues from the Evening Standard Crossword for December 24 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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Phantom51 AcrossReveal answer → Accept no authority from a fatheaded oaf51 AcrossReveal answer → Feeble52 AcrossReveal answer → A slim assortment of postal packages56 AcrossReveal answer → Era56 AcrossReveal answer → Annoyance57 AcrossReveal answer → Sag58 AcrossReveal answer → According to reason79 AcrossReveal answer → In the wild, they don't contrive to save gas79 AcrossReveal answer → Rescued510 AcrossReveal answer → Behave smugly510 AcrossReveal answer → Gigantic source of taint510 AcrossReveal answer → Perch511 AcrossReveal answer → The ones belonging to Thomas East511 AcrossReveal answer → Tease512 AcrossReveal answer → Short and interesting, at heart512 AcrossReveal answer → Possess312 AcrossReveal answer → Get better713 AcrossReveal answer → Given something to burn713 AcrossReveal answer → Slumber513 AcrossReveal answer → This is breathlessly assertive!315 AcrossReveal answer → Interfered715 AcrossReveal answer → Jump on one foot315 AcrossReveal answer → Part of a church in a state of collapse417 AcrossReveal answer → Alighted617 AcrossReveal answer → Minute particle417 AcrossReveal answer → There's a national one for these people618 AcrossReveal answer → Take for granted618 AcrossReveal answer → Fish319 AcrossReveal answer → Communicate by taxi with the French519 AcrossReveal answer → Very tall person519 AcrossReveal answer → As emperor, he had his own column620 AcrossReveal answer → Pressed620 AcrossReveal answer → Delineated720 AcrossReveal answer → Price of sheet music, ostensibly422 AcrossReveal answer → Cut into cubes422 AcrossReveal answer → Rind423 AcrossReveal answer → Perhaps a lofty Haydn piece?324 AcrossReveal answer → Karate expert324 AcrossReveal answer → Expensive425 AcrossReveal answer → Lodger725 AcrossReveal answer → Famously lacking ability?725 AcrossReveal answer → Strong drink526 AcrossReveal answer → Regain726 AcrossReveal answer → Disparage526 AcrossReveal answer → Aircraft detection system527 AcrossReveal answer → We go in to the left (by rail, maybe?)527 AcrossReveal answer → Occasions of upsetting '16 Down'528 AcrossReveal answer → Spaghetti, for example528 AcrossReveal answer → Where, afresh, one went off to be a proprietor729 AcrossReveal answer → Principal bullfighter729 AcrossReveal answer → Females dim as can be?530 AcrossReveal answer → Cant530 AcrossReveal answer → Lettuce330 AcrossReveal answer → Kinds531 AcrossReveal answer → Erase631 AcrossReveal answer → Looked to perambulate the dog about half a mile?531 AcrossReveal answer → Broadcast734 AcrossReveal answer → Troubled537 AcrossReveal answer → Fasten338 AcrossReveal answer → Quilt539 AcrossReveal answer → Fret540 AcrossReveal answer → God541 AcrossReveal answer → Postpone542 AcrossReveal answer →

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House51 DownReveal answer → Protection for the head62 DownReveal answer → Melted52 DownReveal answer → Sick of being kept in reserve?62 DownReveal answer → Valid way for us to get fit63 DownReveal answer → Harvested63 DownReveal answer → Skiing race63 DownReveal answer → Detail44 DownReveal answer → Instant healthy-looking colour?34 DownReveal answer → Toddler34 DownReveal answer → Poked75 DownReveal answer → Singular thing to shoot on the river!55 DownReveal answer → Cheroot, for example55 DownReveal answer → Sharpened56 DownReveal answer → Somehow name the gas76 DownReveal answer → Sincere76 DownReveal answer → Like a backward, pale appearance?47 DownReveal answer → Conspiracy47 DownReveal answer → Would she fib about a fathead?68 DownReveal answer → Traditional practice68 DownReveal answer → Bird39 DownReveal answer → Determined711 DownReveal answer → Growing need to change pace at one point512 DownReveal answer → Lukewarm512 DownReveal answer → Incline513 DownReveal answer → Quick513 DownReveal answer → A woman with both hope and charity?513 DownReveal answer → Go in514 DownReveal answer → Piece of writing for the Standard, say?514 DownReveal answer → Punctuation mark514 DownReveal answer → Beat both possibly outright515 DownReveal answer → Hot and sticky515 DownReveal answer → Fellow316 DownReveal answer → Boy's name516 DownReveal answer → Strike as being old-fashioned?516 DownReveal answer → Ousted718 DownReveal answer → Irritate, displease518 DownReveal answer → Give everything not to be decapitated!518 DownReveal answer → Strong places to chuck a chap into719 DownReveal answer → Common719 DownReveal answer → She's Spanish, but there's a Roman version621 DownReveal answer → Plunder621 DownReveal answer → Dissuade521 DownReveal answer → Doleful622 DownReveal answer → Preparing to rob of cover?622 DownReveal answer → Generate522 DownReveal answer → Middle623 DownReveal answer → You may well have a hand in it, albeit briefly623 DownReveal answer → Reading-desk724 DownReveal answer → Staff of life525 DownReveal answer → Not so much heady as potty!525 DownReveal answer → Post a letter to finish with426 DownReveal answer → Panto character426 DownReveal answer → Bed327 DownReveal answer → Figure of a magnificent woman328 DownReveal answer → A container328 DownReveal answer → Ebb628 DownReveal answer → Performer529 DownReveal answer → Subsequently532 DownReveal answer → Cogs533 DownReveal answer → Tune335 DownReveal answer → Discourteous436 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the Evening Standard crossword published on Tuesday, December 24, 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.