Evening Standard Crossword December 8 2022 Answers

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Below are all 131 clues from the Evening Standard Crossword for December 8 2022. 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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Centre53 AcrossReveal answer → Ebb64 AcrossReveal answer → Divide a bit out, just for the moment64 AcrossReveal answer → Peseta we changed for a climber87 AcrossReveal answer → In the open air87 AcrossReveal answer → At such a meal, pals possibly get high68 AcrossReveal answer → Sikh's headdress68 AcrossReveal answer → Rebel69 AcrossReveal answer → Swindle510 AcrossReveal answer → Consuming610 AcrossReveal answer → That Enigmatic English composer510 AcrossReveal answer → Irrigate511 AcrossReveal answer → Mood412 AcrossReveal answer → Where, on a vessel, quietly to use oars?413 AcrossReveal answer → Long bounding stride413 AcrossReveal answer → Fling414 AcrossReveal answer → Is even more compact if it's a Mini414 AcrossReveal answer → Will eating it make you husky?415 AcrossReveal answer → Rowing blades415 AcrossReveal answer → Formerly415 AcrossReveal answer → Is such diving a bit risky?316 AcrossReveal answer → Fizzy drink (3)WASATAB316 AcrossReveal answer → The middle-class woman417 AcrossReveal answer → Aroused717 AcrossReveal answer → Group of players417 AcrossReveal answer → It holds up speakers, etc., in the hall419 AcrossReveal answer → Deserve419 AcrossReveal answer → Mineral320 AcrossReveal answer → That backward business before blast-off921 AcrossReveal answer → Flawlessly921 AcrossReveal answer → Discourage521 AcrossReveal answer → Brave man423 AcrossReveal answer → Vegetable product that could have made Cromwell unwell?423 AcrossReveal answer → Lake423 AcrossReveal answer → If you want fish, crack a nut!424 AcrossReveal answer → Organ of smell424 AcrossReveal answer → Tunny425 AcrossReveal answer → Spicy326 AcrossReveal answer → You need room to swing one326 AcrossReveal answer → Keen526 AcrossReveal answer → Fit as a seaman?427 AcrossReveal answer → Specks427 AcrossReveal answer → Mouthful328 AcrossReveal answer → Show no friendliness in distributing buns429 AcrossReveal answer → Attack429 AcrossReveal answer → Determined730 AcrossReveal answer → It allows a member a certain amount of flexibility432 AcrossReveal answer → Vegetables432 AcrossReveal answer → It's a pity she's out for the morning533 AcrossReveal answer → Freshwater mammal533 AcrossReveal answer → Group433 AcrossReveal answer → Will he never quite make a leading man?634 AcrossReveal answer → Tension634 AcrossReveal answer → Plenty of painful punishment835 AcrossReveal answer → Mirage835 AcrossReveal answer → Cipher435 AcrossReveal answer → Vagrants636 AcrossReveal answer → Coloured water?636 AcrossReveal answer → Leaf536 AcrossReveal answer → Needed638 AcrossReveal answer → Noisier639 AcrossReveal answer → Renovate540 AcrossReveal answer →

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Capture51 DownReveal answer → If you want to be invited, apply to the Editor51 DownReveal answer → Serious51 DownReveal answer → Following in time52 DownReveal answer → They're only partly seen as a danger to shipping52 DownReveal answer → Pick-me-up52 DownReveal answer → Superlative of good43 DownReveal answer → Make the cocoa go round in jug?43 DownReveal answer → Cut33 DownReveal answer → Helicopter blade54 DownReveal answer → Deleted64 DownReveal answer → Port, as in a bar, maybe54 DownReveal answer → Smell45 DownReveal answer → Nucleus45 DownReveal answer → Bernard, it seems, was upset about the hotel45 DownReveal answer → Sailor36 DownReveal answer → Mythical monster66 DownReveal answer → Blocks half of loch having unfortunately sunk66 DownReveal answer → Instrument57 DownReveal answer → Tally58 DownReveal answer → Distresses69 DownReveal answer → Place of pride69 DownReveal answer → Embrace311 DownReveal answer → The cash I had for cover311 DownReveal answer → He may consider Macbeth unmentionable512 DownReveal answer → Change512 DownReveal answer → Elucidate713 DownReveal answer → Talk softly to Sir Simon713 DownReveal answer → Bewails713 DownReveal answer → Relative514 DownReveal answer → Would he be the new leader?315 DownReveal answer → Dolt315 DownReveal answer → Fault in the housing programme316 DownReveal answer → Made716 DownReveal answer → Snoop316 DownReveal answer → Stupefied518 DownReveal answer → Anybody on earth should be benevolent618 DownReveal answer → Wears away618 DownReveal answer → Insect319 DownReveal answer → Ah! Was taken in and nearly sunk!520 DownReveal answer → On one's toes520 DownReveal answer → Favourite321 DownReveal answer → You may not remember having spent the night in one321 DownReveal answer → Lettuce322 DownReveal answer → Expected to be outside the King's Head with a nobleman322 DownReveal answer → Jacket522 DownReveal answer → Car horn623 DownReveal answer → Bottle broken by the RAF ace623 DownReveal answer → Owned324 DownReveal answer → Contend325 DownReveal answer → Amount arranged for some asylum seekers?325 DownReveal answer → Entertain627 DownReveal answer → She twice left little Beatrice out528 DownReveal answer → Dirty528 DownReveal answer → Fertile spot528 DownReveal answer → Fragment529 DownReveal answer → Garret530 DownReveal answer → She mentions a letter to Annie, not Billy530 DownReveal answer → Shabby531 DownReveal answer → Swallow liquid531 DownReveal answer → Could be a horse a bet's adapted for531 DownReveal answer → Hairstyle432 DownReveal answer → Disparage532 DownReveal answer → A touch of life, perhaps?432 DownReveal answer → Thus a house is in one part of London433 DownReveal answer → Egg cell433 DownReveal answer → Yield434 DownReveal answer → Through336 DownReveal answer → Moo337 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the Evening Standard crossword published on Thursday, December 8, 2022. 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.