Evening Standard Crossword January 16 2026 Answers

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Below are all 132 clues from the Evening Standard Crossword for January 16 2026. 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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Inlet54 AcrossReveal answer → Jacket67 AcrossReveal answer → Beer39 AcrossReveal answer → Just the same, later comes out in the nude, dancing99 AcrossReveal answer → Sauce99 AcrossReveal answer → Conifer310 AcrossReveal answer → He's not preparing the cannabis there and then910 AcrossReveal answer → Native Australian910 AcrossReveal answer → Require and appropriate412 AcrossReveal answer → Tender512 AcrossReveal answer → Large tropical tree412 AcrossReveal answer → When going round the abyss, keeps well away from it613 AcrossReveal answer → Unfortunately413 AcrossReveal answer → Conclude613 AcrossReveal answer → Give ground on the transport carrying Her Majesty714 AcrossReveal answer → Lacking imagination714 AcrossReveal answer → Lacking vitality915 AcrossReveal answer → A service for the dead?915 AcrossReveal answer → Jam515 AcrossReveal answer → To create peace, jeopardises917 AcrossReveal answer → Feeling917 AcrossReveal answer → Streak617 AcrossReveal answer → Having time off, the lasses hang about looking decorative718 AcrossReveal answer → Erased718 AcrossReveal answer → He is, in the main, right619 AcrossReveal answer → Minute619 AcrossReveal answer → Genuine419 AcrossReveal answer → Outcome520 AcrossReveal answer → Earnest request420 AcrossReveal answer → A shade low420 AcrossReveal answer → Statute322 AcrossReveal answer → Len had to return and to help923 AcrossReveal answer → Romantic card923 AcrossReveal answer → Advantage724 AcrossReveal answer → Thinking it right, on witnessing the spasm925 AcrossReveal answer → Political agitator925 AcrossReveal answer → Swelling426 AcrossReveal answer → Not so drunk, being accustomed to it426 AcrossReveal answer → It's lucky mother's gone to bed627 AcrossReveal answer → Excellent627 AcrossReveal answer → Fellow327 AcrossReveal answer → Rescued528 AcrossReveal answer → Sense one's intending to729 AcrossReveal answer → Warded off729 AcrossReveal answer → Quiet431 AcrossReveal answer → Too quiet to be heard932 AcrossReveal answer → Be in possession of a drawing and know what you'll do932 AcrossReveal answer → Easy633 AcrossReveal answer → Appropriate934 AcrossReveal answer → Cheated the punter and was more successful at it934 AcrossReveal answer → Also coming through is a darn whirl wind735 AcrossReveal answer → Increase735 AcrossReveal answer → Fat535 AcrossReveal answer → Badly out in the spelling of "lively"636 AcrossReveal answer → Divulge636 AcrossReveal answer → Idly look through a book under a tree?437 AcrossReveal answer → Household implement437 AcrossReveal answer → Cupid437 AcrossReveal answer → Comments in the book on chiropody?938 AcrossReveal answer → Go beyond938 AcrossReveal answer → Hurry538 AcrossReveal answer → Chop339 AcrossReveal answer → Exuberant939 AcrossReveal answer → How the golfer described the two-mile avenue?939 AcrossReveal answer → Consume341 AcrossReveal answer → Company642 AcrossReveal answer → Kingdom543 AcrossReveal answer →

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Not much evidence that there's a horse around81 DownReveal answer → Engrossed81 DownReveal answer → Sausage61 DownReveal answer → It's meaningless for those without nous122 DownReveal answer → Without equal122 DownReveal answer → Bog62 DownReveal answer → Lout33 DownReveal answer → Man's name83 DownReveal answer → Succeeds in cutting a sliver on the quiet83 DownReveal answer → Choke44 DownReveal answer → Hit64 DownReveal answer → We'd mistaken one girl for another64 DownReveal answer → Allude55 DownReveal answer → Exaggerated masculinity85 DownReveal answer → Give up because you promise to85 DownReveal answer → When specified, Ted and Tim will be in the East, travelling106 DownReveal answer → Grace86 DownReveal answer → Selection of games106 DownReveal answer → Are prancing into the arena and standing on their hind legs77 DownReveal answer → Temporary encampment77 DownReveal answer → Fruit48 DownReveal answer → Proportion108 DownReveal answer → With "Before two, ideally," is in really good form108 DownReveal answer → "Set for fish," you say511 DownReveal answer → Re-stock911 DownReveal answer → Arab511 DownReveal answer → Stump414 DownReveal answer → Have in mind616 DownReveal answer → Unhearing416 DownReveal answer → The person let into the secret - an islander616 DownReveal answer → Rush418 DownReveal answer → Mimic319 DownReveal answer → Mother got up furious319 DownReveal answer → Wouldn't give a decision to but didn't allow to land1221 DownReveal answer → Cheerful1221 DownReveal answer → Soak821 DownReveal answer → A very rough sea; fun but dangerous622 DownReveal answer → Concurred622 DownReveal answer → Fan1023 DownReveal answer → Strand423 DownReveal answer → Dismiss lightly, in a funny kind of way1023 DownReveal answer → In all price ranges, no matter what1024 DownReveal answer → Restraint1024 DownReveal answer → Nuzzle425 DownReveal answer → Pigment325 DownReveal answer → Ready for collection325 DownReveal answer → Story426 DownReveal answer → Injustice828 DownReveal answer → Shorten it do, stupid!828 DownReveal answer → Against629 DownReveal answer → Forced to dress as a girl829 DownReveal answer → Material decoration829 DownReveal answer → Frustrated630 DownReveal answer → Not bugged830 DownReveal answer → Explode830 DownReveal answer → Man stood up by Agnes, perhaps, in the Italian restaurant731 DownReveal answer → Antagonistic731 DownReveal answer → Inn532 DownReveal answer → Figure Igor had been led astray by the sign533 DownReveal answer → Corner533 DownReveal answer → Bores the doctor with ailments634 DownReveal answer → Encounter434 DownReveal answer → Is jealous of634 DownReveal answer → Ray436 DownReveal answer → Crooked340 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the Evening Standard crossword published on Friday, January 16, 2026. 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.