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Evening Standard Crossword February 2 2018 Answers

Friday puzzle · 130 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 130 clues from the Evening Standard Crossword for February 2 2018. 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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Belief51 AcrossReveal answer → Stronghold65 AcrossReveal answer → Inn58 AcrossReveal answer → Horse show89 AcrossReveal answer → Not getting a mite worried about it? Never!89 AcrossReveal answer → Knock back, as usual310 AcrossReveal answer → Carrier610 AcrossReveal answer → Crowd310 AcrossReveal answer → Smiling, I claim to be exploited611 AcrossReveal answer → Spoken411 AcrossReveal answer → Breathe out611 AcrossReveal answer → Sausage in a roll612 AcrossReveal answer → Rabbit the baby likes to have in its pram612 AcrossReveal answer → Most possible713 AcrossReveal answer → Wild bear in an animal show713 AcrossReveal answer → Eye part414 AcrossReveal answer → Catch some in retreat414 AcrossReveal answer → Abundance614 AcrossReveal answer → Office communication1015 AcrossReveal answer → When low on money, what to have for tea?1015 AcrossReveal answer → Occupy715 AcrossReveal answer → Continues to make profits817 AcrossReveal answer → Skittles817 AcrossReveal answer → Enclosure318 AcrossReveal answer → Having come back, worked regularly at again718 AcrossReveal answer → Suffocate718 AcrossReveal answer → Bow319 AcrossReveal answer → Will it carry back nine at a time?419 AcrossReveal answer → Manner of walking419 AcrossReveal answer → Occur621 AcrossReveal answer → When he leaves here at eleven, settle in621 AcrossReveal answer → Action421 AcrossReveal answer → Annoyed523 AcrossReveal answer → Market424 AcrossReveal answer → Rest that one, in all fairness, deserves?1724 AcrossReveal answer → Interesting object1724 AcrossReveal answer → Tear327 AcrossReveal answer → Don’t accept the parent’s taken to drink627 AcrossReveal answer → Pure627 AcrossReveal answer → Tree329 AcrossReveal answer → Curved structure429 AcrossReveal answer → Put, inside it, a love letter429 AcrossReveal answer → The long-suffering alto is having to change key in it730 AcrossReveal answer → Best730 AcrossReveal answer → True731 AcrossReveal answer → Trader632 AcrossReveal answer → Suave or slick person, informally833 AcrossReveal answer → A girl imprisoned for having wasted money833 AcrossReveal answer → Bill of fare434 AcrossReveal answer → Inborn635 AcrossReveal answer → All second-hand? We’re used to that!1035 AcrossReveal answer → Snapshot1035 AcrossReveal answer → Catch on to a branch436 AcrossReveal answer → Broad smile436 AcrossReveal answer → Unsheathe, to make one talk737 AcrossReveal answer → African country737 AcrossReveal answer → Roman538 AcrossReveal answer → Performing their number in it, do really well638 AcrossReveal answer → Furore638 AcrossReveal answer → Spirit639 AcrossReveal answer → Sheen640 AcrossReveal answer → Decree the road must be repaired in640 AcrossReveal answer → Mendacious540 AcrossReveal answer → Nought341 AcrossReveal answer → Came out on top, you say, in both halves341 AcrossReveal answer → Musical work842 AcrossReveal answer → When the food is cooked, slipping off842 AcrossReveal answer →

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Syringe101 DownReveal answer → Affection you feel for someone you’re stuck on?101 DownReveal answer → Uncontrolled slide42 DownReveal answer → Wolf in close up42 DownReveal answer → Wonder32 DownReveal answer → Tongue83 DownReveal answer → Quite big, but not immeasurably so83 DownReveal answer → Menace63 DownReveal answer → Artificial74 DownReveal answer → Stretched out in the shade, long to74 DownReveal answer → Tool34 DownReveal answer → Obstruct45 DownReveal answer → Horrible thing115 DownReveal answer → Apt to take for one’s own use115 DownReveal answer → Shut66 DownReveal answer → Nautical skill106 DownReveal answer → After this, my teaching days are over, my sweet!106 DownReveal answer → Surpass67 DownReveal answer → Marine crustacean67 DownReveal answer → Seem busy making attire for the period piece67 DownReveal answer → Confederation88 DownReveal answer → Seen to be highly thought of88 DownReveal answer → Coach79 DownReveal answer → Mad to free the imprisoned sailor510 DownReveal answer → Motto510 DownReveal answer → Tap312 DownReveal answer → Solitary413 DownReveal answer → New star416 DownReveal answer → Seen in seas so rough they make your hair curl?716 DownReveal answer → Excursions716 DownReveal answer → Poisonous517 DownReveal answer → Loft520 DownReveal answer → Lodge720 DownReveal answer → Dealing with roughly520 DownReveal answer → Going off to get a coin to telephone722 DownReveal answer → Heroic422 DownReveal answer → Prime minister722 DownReveal answer → Squabble with, when you queue up?1123 DownReveal answer → Property seller1123 DownReveal answer → Mean624 DownReveal answer → Seeing what you have to say for youself1025 DownReveal answer → Impartial1025 DownReveal answer → Wander425 DownReveal answer → China has a problem with depravity1026 DownReveal answer → Aptitude626 DownReveal answer → Infuriate1026 DownReveal answer → Are we prepared to sit in for, so to speak?828 DownReveal answer → Nook628 DownReveal answer → Funny828 DownReveal answer → Knowledge330 DownReveal answer → Deep831 DownReveal answer → In giving a garbled version of, is cheating831 DownReveal answer → Ruler732 DownReveal answer → Saying there’s a metal animal outside it732 DownReveal answer → Govern433 DownReveal answer → A remarkable cue634 DownReveal answer → Elaborately decorated634 DownReveal answer → One’s to squeeze the ring into the loop535 DownReveal answer → Danger535 DownReveal answer → Zero336 DownReveal answer → Cask337 DownReveal answer → Nonsense! Light up!439 DownReveal answer → Long journey439 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the Evening Standard crossword published on Friday, February 2, 2018. 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.