Evening Standard Crossword February 24 2023 Answers

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Below are all 130 clues from the Evening Standard Crossword for February 24 2023. 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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Respond51 AcrossReveal answer → Countless65 AcrossReveal answer → Jockey58 AcrossReveal answer → Accepted the position, as it happened99 AcrossReveal answer → Lifeless99 AcrossReveal answer → Loathsome910 AcrossReveal answer → Courteous610 AcrossReveal answer → Has a flirtation - and doesn't stop at that910 AcrossReveal answer → Female411 AcrossReveal answer → A teeny bit upset by the facts412 AcrossReveal answer → Squeak412 AcrossReveal answer → Animal613 AcrossReveal answer → In its stead, I have fish613 AcrossReveal answer → Stops714 AcrossReveal answer → Motor614 AcrossReveal answer → What will it do if it catches a fly?714 AcrossReveal answer → Slight possibility that you won't be working?915 AcrossReveal answer → Heading715 AcrossReveal answer → Tourist915 AcrossReveal answer → So is on the spot with the van917 AcrossReveal answer → Lizard917 AcrossReveal answer → Allows that one is in pain718 AcrossReveal answer → Relatives318 AcrossReveal answer → Erases718 AcrossReveal answer → Are these trainees little bounders?619 AcrossReveal answer → Robs619 AcrossReveal answer → Cur319 AcrossReveal answer → Nought420 AcrossReveal answer → In English and French says "Revise it"420 AcrossReveal answer → Deceased421 AcrossReveal answer → Submitted to the current editor923 AcrossReveal answer → Augmented923 AcrossReveal answer → Ague523 AcrossReveal answer → Assistance424 AcrossReveal answer → The meter he can do without925 AcrossReveal answer → Perforates925 AcrossReveal answer → It's not turning the key that makes the sound426 AcrossReveal answer → Lays out426 AcrossReveal answer → Greet627 AcrossReveal answer → Lair327 AcrossReveal answer → Briefed on the first day627 AcrossReveal answer → Dog729 AcrossReveal answer → Lubricate329 AcrossReveal answer → They warn us the lady's also backed into it729 AcrossReveal answer → Ahead731 AcrossReveal answer → Woe632 AcrossReveal answer → Neither do we gain by changing nationality932 AcrossReveal answer → Derides932 AcrossReveal answer → Facts434 AcrossReveal answer → Drive in France934 AcrossReveal answer → Fruit934 AcrossReveal answer → Come635 AcrossReveal answer → Like the girl who's coming first in the charm competition?735 AcrossReveal answer → Opposed to735 AcrossReveal answer → Moves quickly and tries to catch the ball636 AcrossReveal answer → Saw636 AcrossReveal answer → Attempt437 AcrossReveal answer → Flash a smile437 AcrossReveal answer → Implicated938 AcrossReveal answer → Worth538 AcrossReveal answer → Make a copy for and make it smaller all round938 AcrossReveal answer → Self-employed939 AcrossReveal answer → Assume Daniel is working in the plant939 AcrossReveal answer → Erase639 AcrossReveal answer → Bordered540 AcrossReveal answer →

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Working hard at the workshop ourselves81 DownReveal answer → Inclined81 DownReveal answer → Carefree122 DownReveal answer → Ages of the tennis-playing mother and daughter?122 DownReveal answer → Stray32 DownReveal answer → Slipshod83 DownReveal answer → Faults responsible for one's being ploughed in the exam?83 DownReveal answer → Cunning63 DownReveal answer → Fear64 DownReveal answer → Give up work again: get fed up with it64 DownReveal answer → Can34 DownReveal answer → Impel45 DownReveal answer → Fragment85 DownReveal answer → Taken to be the done thing85 DownReveal answer → Congested66 DownReveal answer → "Be a Gold-digger": an American brochure106 DownReveal answer → Dejected106 DownReveal answer → Guard67 DownReveal answer → The awful pair returned, determined on becoming thieves77 DownReveal answer → Cooked77 DownReveal answer → Have more sense than to become further acquainted with108 DownReveal answer → Wonderful108 DownReveal answer → Deciphered79 DownReveal answer → A number also being worried about multiple firings511 DownReveal answer → Follow511 DownReveal answer → Writing-fluid312 DownReveal answer → Ancestry413 DownReveal answer → Having leant over, he had grabbed the fish616 DownReveal answer → Laugh616 DownReveal answer → Pain416 DownReveal answer → New517 DownReveal answer → Unhappy319 DownReveal answer → Fish caught do wriggle319 DownReveal answer → Widespread720 DownReveal answer → Very loud1221 DownReveal answer → Frantic attempt made when a lot is hanging in the balance?1221 DownReveal answer → So be it422 DownReveal answer → Hit622 DownReveal answer → Again forcing me to be aloof622 DownReveal answer → Significance1023 DownReveal answer → Very briefly, help with the compilation of the lexicon1023 DownReveal answer → Quietened624 DownReveal answer → Proving, by the expulsion of1024 DownReveal answer → Disease1024 DownReveal answer → Tart325 DownReveal answer → He's no good at reversing, either325 DownReveal answer → Peer425 DownReveal answer → Corsair626 DownReveal answer → Worshipped628 DownReveal answer → Wobbly828 DownReveal answer → At home when the gentleman comes round: a politician828 DownReveal answer → Nomad829 DownReveal answer → Having passed over, going back to again829 DownReveal answer → Shook830 DownReveal answer → Fate330 DownReveal answer → It ends stirringly, with me captured in the grounds830 DownReveal answer → By five one's in, cooking the meat731 DownReveal answer → Studied731 DownReveal answer → For the trip north, fly533 DownReveal answer → Flourish433 DownReveal answer → Haggard533 DownReveal answer → Information634 DownReveal answer → Light left on, get into the unmade bed634 DownReveal answer → Regret336 DownReveal answer → Strive337 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the Evening Standard crossword published on Friday, February 24, 2023. 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.