Evening Standard Crossword January 5 2026 Answers

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Below are all 130 clues from the Evening Standard Crossword for January 5 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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Handwriting61 AcrossReveal answer → Where to shoot duck in the W. Indies64 AcrossReveal answer → Comedians64 AcrossReveal answer → Moist45 AcrossReveal answer → Final defeat in a pool game, possibly?87 AcrossReveal answer → Sanction87 AcrossReveal answer → Song belter maybe?68 AcrossReveal answer → At a canter68 AcrossReveal answer → Paramour58 AcrossReveal answer → Donkey39 AcrossReveal answer → Assumed name510 AcrossReveal answer → Quarry410 AcrossReveal answer → Meat that comes in pots?510 AcrossReveal answer → Location411 AcrossReveal answer → Performed512 AcrossReveal answer → Impetuous413 AcrossReveal answer → Possible barrier to free movement?413 AcrossReveal answer → Menace613 AcrossReveal answer → Hollow414 AcrossReveal answer → Try to finish fast after a setback414 AcrossReveal answer → Be slow to give lb1 to a politician415 AcrossReveal answer → Writing tools415 AcrossReveal answer → Distant316 AcrossReveal answer → Age of enlightenment?316 AcrossReveal answer → Repose416 AcrossReveal answer → In the pictures, a great story417 AcrossReveal answer → Cooking fat417 AcrossReveal answer → Valley418 AcrossReveal answer → Muslim ruler419 AcrossReveal answer → Possibly one contains a bit of veal419 AcrossReveal answer → Aye320 AcrossReveal answer → Gasholder921 AcrossReveal answer → Birds can be such friends!921 AcrossReveal answer → Groove322 AcrossReveal answer → Money, slang423 AcrossReveal answer → Drop in and see the lot423 AcrossReveal answer → Finish323 AcrossReveal answer → Skills in heart surgery424 AcrossReveal answer → Paddle424 AcrossReveal answer → Compass point424 AcrossReveal answer → Stagger425 AcrossReveal answer → It's a reasonable question326 AcrossReveal answer → Four-poster, for example326 AcrossReveal answer → An area to care about?427 AcrossReveal answer → Nagging427 AcrossReveal answer → Buck628 AcrossReveal answer → Car mart maybe429 AcrossReveal answer → Sudden surprise attack429 AcrossReveal answer → Employees530 AcrossReveal answer → Move fast to get a small something to chew!432 AcrossReveal answer → Unruly child432 AcrossReveal answer → Repast432 AcrossReveal answer → In song, it's for ordinary people533 AcrossReveal answer → Jot433 AcrossReveal answer → Smithy533 AcrossReveal answer → Unconscious of needing a rest634 AcrossReveal answer → Drunkard334 AcrossReveal answer → Rue634 AcrossReveal answer → Enlightenment may come so quickly!835 AcrossReveal answer → Skirmish535 AcrossReveal answer → Complete835 AcrossReveal answer → Made for the top, as editor636 AcrossReveal answer → Fastened436 AcrossReveal answer → Divulge636 AcrossReveal answer → Offer637 AcrossReveal answer →

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Cold dish51 DownReveal answer → Scarce61 DownReveal answer → Quick way to get fit by exercise51 DownReveal answer → Kept82 DownReveal answer → European country52 DownReveal answer → A bit of a pig maybe sets out to live in them52 DownReveal answer → Dear Charles has that roguish quality43 DownReveal answer → Chuck43 DownReveal answer → Tree63 DownReveal answer → Of tribal significance, it can carry a lot54 DownReveal answer → Free from dirt54 DownReveal answer → Blacked94 DownReveal answer → Earn75 DownReveal answer → Net45 DownReveal answer → To make a buzzer loud, takes power45 DownReveal answer → Parched46 DownReveal answer → In general, like the past?66 DownReveal answer → Shirt part66 DownReveal answer → Lord47 DownReveal answer → Meadow38 DownReveal answer → Valuable commodities69 DownReveal answer → News story about the Left?69 DownReveal answer → Boy's name311 DownReveal answer → Member of the side311 DownReveal answer → An iron container512 DownReveal answer → Book of maps512 DownReveal answer → Would he mend a chair when on the road?713 DownReveal answer → Beef, for example713 DownReveal answer → Petrified914 DownReveal answer → In favour of315 DownReveal answer → Elderly315 DownReveal answer → Left it blazing?315 DownReveal answer → Tree type316 DownReveal answer → Was he wasted?316 DownReveal answer → Prosecute317 DownReveal answer → Building a place for demolition618 DownReveal answer → Onto land from water618 DownReveal answer → Inspected819 DownReveal answer → At some stage, she needs a bit of love520 DownReveal answer → Yelp320 DownReveal answer → Paris underground520 DownReveal answer → Female fairy abandoned by the tax people321 DownReveal answer → Deity321 DownReveal answer → Subsided721 DownReveal answer → Sooner than be a bit different?322 DownReveal answer → Consume322 DownReveal answer → Being virginal, mistakenly chased?623 DownReveal answer → Expunge623 DownReveal answer → Large325 DownReveal answer → Something to pay in private325 DownReveal answer → Find626 DownReveal answer → Bomb-hole627 DownReveal answer → Of birth528 DownReveal answer → Cherubic type highly placed in the CID528 DownReveal answer → Exclude429 DownReveal answer → Competitor who figured in a rail crash?530 DownReveal answer → Identical430 DownReveal answer → Quarrel530 DownReveal answer → Discourage531 DownReveal answer → Enemy331 DownReveal answer → Fanciful stories about Smyth?531 DownReveal answer → Dispatch to the southern extremity432 DownReveal answer → French cheese432 DownReveal answer → Money frequently means a high situation433 DownReveal answer → Twelve inches433 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the Evening Standard crossword published on Monday, January 5, 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.