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Evening Standard Crossword December 26 2019 Answers

Thursday puzzle · 128 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 128 clues from the Evening Standard Crossword for December 26 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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ClueLetters#Answer
Improve61 AcrossReveal answer → Muscular and strong64 AcrossReveal answer → Get to suit64 AcrossReveal answer → Abrupt65 AcrossReveal answer → Highest point87 AcrossReveal answer → In optics, a bit of looker?87 AcrossReveal answer → Get together against backing a dog and a horse68 AcrossReveal answer → Imperil88 AcrossReveal answer → Specimen68 AcrossReveal answer → Speed49 AcrossReveal answer → Nominally you'll find a clue in central Dakar510 AcrossReveal answer → Man's310 AcrossReveal answer → Put clothes on510 AcrossReveal answer → Jam512 AcrossReveal answer → Joe, by the way, is the tenor413 AcrossReveal answer → Imitation413 AcrossReveal answer → Indian garment414 AcrossReveal answer → The high cost of terrorism?414 AcrossReveal answer → Slightly wet415 AcrossReveal answer → Writers of a footnote about certain points415 AcrossReveal answer → Rodent315 AcrossReveal answer → Not all crab apples can be eaten316 AcrossReveal answer → Single number316 AcrossReveal answer → Kick in the rear?417 AcrossReveal answer → Wound mark417 AcrossReveal answer → Vegetable317 AcrossReveal answer → Hatchet318 AcrossReveal answer → Biblical name in every thesaurus419 AcrossReveal answer → Hearing organs419 AcrossReveal answer → Wrath319 AcrossReveal answer → Handle520 AcrossReveal answer → Grand old guard giving timely information921 AcrossReveal answer → Fruit preserve921 AcrossReveal answer → Each321 AcrossReveal answer → Curve322 AcrossReveal answer → Nevertheless one may be thought really to exist423 AcrossReveal answer → Finish323 AcrossReveal answer → Unemployment benefit423 AcrossReveal answer → Nucleus424 AcrossReveal answer → Hill324 AcrossReveal answer → She's back, more than half asleep424 AcrossReveal answer → Mortal526 AcrossReveal answer → Faucet326 AcrossReveal answer → Satisfied with a methodical start326 AcrossReveal answer → Prevalent depression in the countryside?427 AcrossReveal answer → Pull along427 AcrossReveal answer → Poke429 AcrossReveal answer → Pressure on a youth with nothing to hide?429 AcrossReveal answer → Yelp329 AcrossReveal answer → Dispose of, part used, for £50432 AcrossReveal answer → Perishes432 AcrossReveal answer → Border on being edgy533 AcrossReveal answer → Inactive433 AcrossReveal answer → Unit of weight533 AcrossReveal answer → Charm a chap with temptation634 AcrossReveal answer → Complete834 AcrossReveal answer → Catch fire634 AcrossReveal answer → A case of 'hit and run' involving children835 AcrossReveal answer → Bomb-hole635 AcrossReveal answer → Marsupial835 AcrossReveal answer → Nowadays, an opening is always coming636 AcrossReveal answer → Mood636 AcrossReveal answer → Fractures636 AcrossReveal answer →

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Potatoes51 DownReveal answer → Food they bake badly at Birkenhead?51 DownReveal answer → Go in52 DownReveal answer → Boredom52 DownReveal answer → Material may be mined52 DownReveal answer → Make a little love with a light touch43 DownReveal answer → Side43 DownReveal answer → Girl43 DownReveal answer → Start to live with spirit54 DownReveal answer → Rascal54 DownReveal answer → Broom of twigs54 DownReveal answer → Is incapable of hypocrisy?45 DownReveal answer → Shoot55 DownReveal answer → Military land force45 DownReveal answer → The terrorists twice gave mum a turn66 DownReveal answer → Soil46 DownReveal answer → Stockings66 DownReveal answer → Additional57 DownReveal answer → Liquid maybe, but a mug will take only half69 DownReveal answer → Seem69 DownReveal answer → Raise510 DownReveal answer → Owl fluttering near the ground311 DownReveal answer → Javelin511 DownReveal answer → Beam of light311 DownReveal answer → Good man's boat wrecked around Beachy Head512 DownReveal answer → Rope-making fibre512 DownReveal answer → Observe512 DownReveal answer → On the cards as good advice?713 DownReveal answer → Vision513 DownReveal answer → Venezuelan capital713 DownReveal answer → Consumed514 DownReveal answer → A case of seediness?315 DownReveal answer → Weir315 DownReveal answer → Prompt515 DownReveal answer → Flower516 DownReveal answer → Utterance of a bachelor on fishing lunch316 DownReveal answer → Mineral316 DownReveal answer → Is he a Romeo to a girl?618 DownReveal answer → Belief618 DownReveal answer → Climb on a fish's back, perhaps?520 DownReveal answer → Skilful520 DownReveal answer → Achieve one's target at last321 DownReveal answer → Cleaning item321 DownReveal answer → The dealer's drink?322 DownReveal answer → Register, record322 DownReveal answer → Risk623 DownReveal answer → Held to rhyme with 'howled'623 DownReveal answer → Command525 DownReveal answer → With wages cut, will he joke?325 DownReveal answer → Was victorious325 DownReveal answer → Speak527 DownReveal answer → Stinks528 DownReveal answer → Warning of real disaster starting tomorrow?528 DownReveal answer → Concerning528 DownReveal answer → Bellows530 DownReveal answer → Fish530 DownReveal answer → Tell someone the arrangement?530 DownReveal answer → Fiend531 DownReveal answer → Despatched431 DownReveal answer → Possibly needs to be thick531 DownReveal answer → Prima donna432 DownReveal answer → Satisfied it's safe432 DownReveal answer → Chamber432 DownReveal answer → Do such tomatoes taste like grapes?433 DownReveal answer → Herb433 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the Evening Standard crossword published on Thursday, December 26, 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.