Evening Standard Crossword December 31 2021 Answers

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Below are all 132 clues from the Evening Standard Crossword for December 31 2021. 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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Skinflint54 AcrossReveal answer → Counting-frame67 AcrossReveal answer → Enthusiast39 AcrossReveal answer → It makes one itch to atone for one's misbehaviour99 AcrossReveal answer → Lifeless99 AcrossReveal answer → Lout310 AcrossReveal answer → Travelling by train, for a change. Isn't flying910 AcrossReveal answer → Hate910 AcrossReveal answer → Having, at one point, a smash hit412 AcrossReveal answer → Taut512 AcrossReveal answer → Cut412 AcrossReveal answer → Happen to be getting the drop on613 AcrossReveal answer → Animal413 AcrossReveal answer → Smaller613 AcrossReveal answer → How you said "I paid a thousand dollars for it"?714 AcrossReveal answer → Larva714 AcrossReveal answer → Wrapping915 AcrossReveal answer → The way in which management is heading?915 AcrossReveal answer → Oarsman515 AcrossReveal answer → Not the same fellows I rented out accommodation to917 AcrossReveal answer → Feeling917 AcrossReveal answer → Wish617 AcrossReveal answer → From the container, get a strange looking soup718 AcrossReveal answer → Crowed718 AcrossReveal answer → A number vamoose, or split619 AcrossReveal answer → Bird619 AcrossReveal answer → Volume419 AcrossReveal answer → Present520 AcrossReveal answer → Branch420 AcrossReveal answer → It takes a month to get round the county420 AcrossReveal answer → Sailor322 AcrossReveal answer → Don't understand why you turn a blind eye to923 AcrossReveal answer → Talk923 AcrossReveal answer → Ripened724 AcrossReveal answer → Spot something in the jeweller's window925 AcrossReveal answer → Fruit925 AcrossReveal answer → Usual426 AcrossReveal answer → Too much to get on top of426 AcrossReveal answer → At least four supports627 AcrossReveal answer → Diverted627 AcrossReveal answer → Weight327 AcrossReveal answer → Called528 AcrossReveal answer → Who was summoned when the customer wrote a bad cheque?729 AcrossReveal answer → Animal729 AcrossReveal answer → Unfortunately431 AcrossReveal answer → Kept up932 AcrossReveal answer → Terribly anti about, as a fellow Australian932 AcrossReveal answer → Burden633 AcrossReveal answer → Infantile934 AcrossReveal answer → Picking up a hoop for the others to go through934 AcrossReveal answer → It's water for the irises? Nonsense!735 AcrossReveal answer → Pamphlet735 AcrossReveal answer → Adhesive535 AcrossReveal answer → Gets from with difficulty, as the previous wife does636 AcrossReveal answer → Photographs636 AcrossReveal answer → A girl to avoid437 AcrossReveal answer → Board game437 AcrossReveal answer → Deserve437 AcrossReveal answer → Fascinated by how one plotted938 AcrossReveal answer → Rare938 AcrossReveal answer → Curse538 AcrossReveal answer → Spike339 AcrossReveal answer → Sausage939 AcrossReveal answer → At home I have the fireplace to blacken939 AcrossReveal answer → Fasten341 AcrossReveal answer → Rue642 AcrossReveal answer → Bordered543 AcrossReveal answer →

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Could clearly be seen to have arrived81 DownReveal answer → Follower81 DownReveal answer → Captured61 DownReveal answer → Fighting in an ale bar?122 DownReveal answer → Boat122 DownReveal answer → Show62 DownReveal answer → Twosome33 DownReveal answer → Placated83 DownReveal answer → Find sage to your taste? Ditto!83 DownReveal answer → Companion44 DownReveal answer → Observing64 DownReveal answer → Air pressure64 DownReveal answer → Inactive55 DownReveal answer → Ball game85 DownReveal answer → Get out the gold pieces stuck inside, somehow85 DownReveal answer → Temperature one has to act quickly to reduce?106 DownReveal answer → Outfit86 DownReveal answer → Conflict106 DownReveal answer → Contrived to get the old fellow to go ahead77 DownReveal answer → Scorn77 DownReveal answer → Garment48 DownReveal answer → Loathsome108 DownReveal answer → Not one of those outgoing types?108 DownReveal answer → Left inside edge511 DownReveal answer → Lucky911 DownReveal answer → Over511 DownReveal answer → Period414 DownReveal answer → Deed616 DownReveal answer → Sport416 DownReveal answer → Call round a little afterwards, being sly616 DownReveal answer → Chair418 DownReveal answer → Tart319 DownReveal answer → Rod is a character, by all accounts319 DownReveal answer → Does he stoop to all kinds of villainy?1221 DownReveal answer → Especially1221 DownReveal answer → Sacred821 DownReveal answer → The lines of letters, read aloud622 DownReveal answer → Stopped622 DownReveal answer → Cheese1023 DownReveal answer → Rip423 DownReveal answer → To go by appearances, is looked down on1023 DownReveal answer → A vertical take off - honest!1024 DownReveal answer → Contemplation1024 DownReveal answer → Throw425 DownReveal answer → Cushion325 DownReveal answer → Island houses325 DownReveal answer → Valley426 DownReveal answer → Avoid828 DownReveal answer → Claims one is argumentative828 DownReveal answer → Scarce629 DownReveal answer → Is it lunchtime at the pub that he sings?829 DownReveal answer → Claim829 DownReveal answer → Signify630 DownReveal answer → Show by your expression, when you enter830 DownReveal answer → Dry830 DownReveal answer → Embracing the boy, the girl got the fever731 DownReveal answer → Visitors731 DownReveal answer → Flood532 DownReveal answer → A little way out, but delightful533 DownReveal answer → Bore533 DownReveal answer → It's terribly sad about the war medals634 DownReveal answer → Expensive434 DownReveal answer → Option634 DownReveal answer → Parched436 DownReveal answer → Material340 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the Evening Standard crossword published on Friday, December 31, 2021. 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.