Evening Standard Crossword February 28 2020 Answers

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Below are all 132 clues from the Evening Standard Crossword for February 28 2020. 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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Grasp41 AcrossReveal answer → Feline34 AcrossReveal answer → Manufactured46 AcrossReveal answer → Tune39 AcrossReveal answer → One’s utmost to equalise with the champion99 AcrossReveal answer → Crush99 AcrossReveal answer → Pose810 AcrossReveal answer → I need to think – turn on the light810 AcrossReveal answer → Branch of mathematics810 AcrossReveal answer → Clothed411 AcrossReveal answer → Called from the step412 AcrossReveal answer → Grave412 AcrossReveal answer → Having counted to about fifty, I had inserted the key613 AcrossReveal answer → Japanese garment613 AcrossReveal answer → The refuse bag, in a rage, hurled out714 AcrossReveal answer → Put to death714 AcrossReveal answer → Ban314 AcrossReveal answer → Modern915 AcrossReveal answer → Female with an obsession for covering things up915 AcrossReveal answer → Dulcet516 AcrossReveal answer → When not working, given to being casual917 AcrossReveal answer → '&' sign917 AcrossReveal answer → Show the man’s taken to drink718 AcrossReveal answer → Antiquated718 AcrossReveal answer → Surrendered819 AcrossReveal answer → I’ve squeezed into the lift620 AcrossReveal answer → Keep620 AcrossReveal answer → Continent421 AcrossReveal answer → Principle521 AcrossReveal answer → Proceed, twit!421 AcrossReveal answer → Easing823 AcrossReveal answer → That’s all right – not any duller than before!824 AcrossReveal answer → English county824 AcrossReveal answer → Managed524 AcrossReveal answer → By ten to one the vehicle must be back: he’s very strict826 AcrossReveal answer → Ragged826 AcrossReveal answer → Hairpiece327 AcrossReveal answer → As there’s rain, are driven back428 AcrossReveal answer → Speech defect428 AcrossReveal answer → Ham-fisted629 AcrossReveal answer → Turns red at this moment, to one’s surprise629 AcrossReveal answer → Horse chestnuts731 AcrossReveal answer → Abrupt431 AcrossReveal answer → “He’s only kidding,” you chirp731 AcrossReveal answer → Go by833 AcrossReveal answer → Should have followed them out, I reckoned934 AcrossReveal answer → Competent934 AcrossReveal answer → Prosecute334 AcrossReveal answer → Ale435 AcrossReveal answer → Wages336 AcrossReveal answer → Make laws936 AcrossReveal answer → Later will come the ermine and the throne, perhaps936 AcrossReveal answer → Gasp437 AcrossReveal answer → Debate738 AcrossReveal answer → Trapping the nine escapees, you grant, is not hard738 AcrossReveal answer → Hostility639 AcrossReveal answer → Is tracing it hard work for genealogists?639 AcrossReveal answer → Italian wine440 AcrossReveal answer → Dirty, like the little boy’s clothes440 AcrossReveal answer → A job that’s certainly nice to settle into841 AcrossReveal answer → Spring flower841 AcrossReveal answer → To start with, the scale of payment is excellent942 AcrossReveal answer → Wide-ranging942 AcrossReveal answer →

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Mexican pancake81 DownReveal answer → Gets angry – sure is worried and in a panic81 DownReveal answer → Allow62 DownReveal answer → Street where the meeting is to take place?62 DownReveal answer → Ceremony42 DownReveal answer → Cyclic83 DownReveal answer → A vegetable – and it gets consumed with alacrity83 DownReveal answer → Bucket43 DownReveal answer → Campaigner84 DownReveal answer → Personify64 DownReveal answer → “Item of jewellery,” by the way, means “pearls”64 DownReveal answer → Rank45 DownReveal answer → Uninformed85 DownReveal answer → They’re blooming pleased to get the ten fifty-one!85 DownReveal answer → Parrot56 DownReveal answer → Electrical socket106 DownReveal answer → What makes you so hot on acting?106 DownReveal answer → Sicken37 DownReveal answer → Merrymaking77 DownReveal answer → Listen, for instance, to gossip77 DownReveal answer → Hang58 DownReveal answer → Injury68 DownReveal answer → Ask if there’s a desire for it in the marketplace68 DownReveal answer → Be eager to stop in for something at the jeweller’s711 DownReveal answer → Progress711 DownReveal answer → Sneer512 DownReveal answer → Beneath513 DownReveal answer → Wager314 DownReveal answer → Renovate515 DownReveal answer → Rubber616 DownReveal answer → In that, again, it is intimidating616 DownReveal answer → Furnish517 DownReveal answer → Leathery518 DownReveal answer → She has a terribly hard round to get through519 DownReveal answer → Angry519 DownReveal answer → Rodent320 DownReveal answer → Speech820 DownReveal answer → Thanks to the rain, he’s got lots of water around!320 DownReveal answer → Root vegetable522 DownReveal answer → Label322 DownReveal answer → Clear about the time522 DownReveal answer → “Polish is a foreign language,” you say623 DownReveal answer → Sport623 DownReveal answer → Despite the fact that the ticket seller considered it carefully1025 DownReveal answer → Cut of beef1025 DownReveal answer → Entertain525 DownReveal answer → Go in526 DownReveal answer → Plaything326 DownReveal answer → A setback for Aries that will be detrimental326 DownReveal answer → By this time727 DownReveal answer → Go to pieces when making dessert727 DownReveal answer → Cage428 DownReveal answer → Cease429 DownReveal answer → Hide430 DownReveal answer → Maternal830 DownReveal answer → Couldn’t stand trial when action was taken about830 DownReveal answer → Ponder831 DownReveal answer → Some of our best friends are soldiers831 DownReveal answer → Having translated, submitted to for approval832 DownReveal answer → Regret332 DownReveal answer → Sample832 DownReveal answer → Were obviously afraid, as the fish trapped were733 DownReveal answer → Untidy733 DownReveal answer → Of financial matters635 DownReveal answer → Game in which you go astray, then catch up635 DownReveal answer → Distant, for a change, with the fellows636 DownReveal answer → Clutter636 DownReveal answer → See and read about and get your fill of again637 DownReveal answer → Attack637 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the Evening Standard crossword published on Friday, February 28, 2020. 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.