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Evening Standard Crossword January 7 2022 Answers

Friday puzzle · 135 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all the Evening Standard Crossword January 7 2022 answers. The Friday puzzle has 135 clues; every answer has been verified. Click any clue to see every answer it has ever had, across every publisher in our database.

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ClueAnswerLettersDirection#
HugeGREAT5Across2 AdhesiveGLUE4Across7 InsultOFFEND6Across8 PamphletTRACT5Across9 One's worried about their possibly increasingONTHERISE9Across9 AlternativelyOTHERWISE9Across9 Fleeing? No, turning round and hunter is fleeing!ONTHERUN8Across10 QuicklyINATRICE8Across10 WandROD3Across11 A little taken aback by the informationDATA4Across12 FishEELS4Across12 HideSCREEN6Across13 Says tastes differSTATES6Across13 Try to get an old banger on a boatGONDOLA7Across14 UnaffectedNATURAL7Across14 TruthfulVERACIOUS9Across15 It was the other way round in RomeVICEVERSA9Across15 PitcherEWER4Across15 Man’sHIS3Across16 Not caring in the beginning that it's not a match forDIFFERENT9Across17 CustomersCLIENTELE9Across17 CipherCODE4Across18 Makes a complaint about the bangsREPORTS7Across18 ContritionREMORSE7Across18 DepartmentSECTION7Across19 RobsSTEALS6Across20 GroupUNIT4Across20 Try hard to get the five tries convertedSTRIVE6Across20 AbhorHATE4Across21 Assembled to join one coming back with the newsITEM4Across21 SensibleWISE4Across22 CurlRINGLET7Across23 FairPASSABLE8Across24 Just as bad - he won't take a riskNOBETTER8Across24 ParadiseEDEN4Across25 More rum for the newcomer?STRANGER8Across26 NegligentCARELESS8Across26 SpikeEAR3Across27 Take off, cross, for the summitAPEX4Across28 ListROTA4Across28 LakeMERE4Across28 Beaten by Philip?PIPPED6Across29 SlantedSLOPED6Across29 PerformedDID3Across30 As that confounded sneeze was?BLESSED7Across31 FreeRID3Across31 SignifiesDENOTES7Across31 GlossSHEEN5Across33 He knows a good deal!CARPENTER9Across34 InnocentBLAMELESS9Across34 I mean to weave them into the recurrent patternMAINTHEME9Across36 WorkingACTIVE6Across36 ModelMANNEQUIN9Across36 ThoughtIDEA4Across37 Like the handwriting by which I got the German spy capturedSPIDERY7Across38 BeatTHUMP5Across38 GuaranteedENSURED7Across38 Promise to keep one occupiedENGAGE6Across39 BuccaneerPIRATE6Across39 WineASTI4Across40 Support the frontSTEM4Across40 KillerASSASSIN8Across41 Having given back the remainder, rode offRESTORED8Across41 BirdSPOONBILL9Across42 What you made when phoning about the lost luggage?TRUNKCALL9Across42

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ClueAnswerLettersDirection#
BesidesMOREOVER8Down1 PermitALLOW5Down1 Postpone, to fly the old inHOLDOVER8Down1 AngerCHOLER6Down2 Still acts strangely about it on returnSTATIC6Down2 ObtainGET3Down2 RevealDISCLOSE8Down3 Birds - little birdsBITTERNS8Down3 EpochERA3Down3 ChildTOT3Down4 BreakRECESS6Down4 The British heart transplant girlBERTHA6Down4 AsternAFT3Down5 SummitPINNACLE8Down5 Think the son poured the drink outCONSIDER8Down5 MassageKNEAD5Down6 AnalgesicPAINKILLER10Down6 To cure it, is one put in a cast?STAGEFEVER10Down6 FeignPRETEND7Down7 When Mister Deane foolishly interrupts, wanderMEANDER7Down7 A great to-do when the hair gets a bald patch againFURORE6Down8 Not plentifulSCARCE6Down8 FashionableCHIC4Down10 ChangedALTERED7Down11 DeclinedREFUSED7Down11 I'm into artificial jewellery as a hobbyPASTIME7Down11 WishedDESIRED7Down12 FirCONIFER7Down13 ErasedDELETED7Down14 BarrierHEDGE5Down16 Figure the sign is not always the sameVARIES6Down16 StrokeCARESS6Down16 GuideSTEER5Down17 IntimidateCOW3Down18 DeliberateMEANT5Down19 Liable to be, as before, on the insidePRONE5Down19 UnderstandSEE3Down20 Half getting up when the gentlemen appearedSIR3Down20 CanTIN3Down21 AdvantageASSET5Down22 They draw from banksTIERS5Down22 Bent on getting a goalINTENT6Down23 LookGLANCE6Down23 WhipLASH4Down24 Persuade me to twirl the revolverTWISTMYARM10Down25 NonsenseBALDERDASH10Down25 TrenchDITCH5Down26 A small puff - blueSAD3Down26 RotterCAD3Down26 Many a scare to worry a bodyCARCASE7Down27 SeizedGRABBED7Down27 StreamRIVER5Down29 Put offPOSTPONE8Down30 Means a send-off at the harbourPORTENDS8Down30 ContributionDONATION8Down31 Stress the fight was outside the ringBRINGOUT8Down31 How you said "Pinch me to see if I'm awake"?DREAMILY8Down32 ToupeeWIG3Down32 PrudentSENSIBLE8Down32 RumourHEARSAY7Down33 It reminds me to provide accommodation for the chapMEMENTO7Down33 FixedSET3Down33 BirdEMU3Down34 Checked again to find one end brokenREINED6Down35 PinchNIP3Down35 HelpASSIST6Down35 Very iffyMIGHTY6Down36 MarshMORASS6Down36 No longer star material, they're small fry in HollywoodEXTRAS6Down37 Not spokenUNSAID6Down37

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This page lists every clue and answer from the Evening Standard crossword published on Friday, January 7, 2022. Answers are checked against the completed grid before publishing. 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.