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Evening Standard Crossword July 24 2020 Answers

Friday puzzle · 132 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 132 clues from the Evening Standard Crossword for July 24 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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Cease41 AcrossReveal answer → Equipment34 AcrossReveal answer → Smack46 AcrossReveal answer → Rotter39 AcrossReveal answer → It’s rolled perfectly – let’s have no arguments!99 AcrossReveal answer → Perfect specimen99 AcrossReveal answer → Subside810 AcrossReveal answer → Making contact with, for the purpose of getting money from?810 AcrossReveal answer → Hostage810 AcrossReveal answer → Gemstone411 AcrossReveal answer → Make a mark when you pinch412 AcrossReveal answer → Border on412 AcrossReveal answer → In their struggle to capture victory, few do well613 AcrossReveal answer → Daze613 AcrossReveal answer → About local food and foreign714 AcrossReveal answer → Pilot's compartment714 AcrossReveal answer → Frantic314 AcrossReveal answer → Interfering915 AcrossReveal answer → “Remaining coherent to the last” is too difficult a clue915 AcrossReveal answer → Bury516 AcrossReveal answer → What’s it for? Heavens to grind, dear, in curries!917 AcrossReveal answer → Punctuation mark917 AcrossReveal answer → A gnat buzzing round everybody and showing no fear718 AcrossReveal answer → Infantile718 AcrossReveal answer → Hugged819 AcrossReveal answer → Regardless, whatever route you take620 AcrossReveal answer → Nocturnal animal620 AcrossReveal answer → Abominable snowman421 AcrossReveal answer → Revolt521 AcrossReveal answer → You find being in the stand hard421 AcrossReveal answer → Painstaking823 AcrossReveal answer → In the descent, he’s ahead of you824 AcrossReveal answer → Implied824 AcrossReveal answer → Severe524 AcrossReveal answer → Intensify the colour of the globe – an unusual blue826 AcrossReveal answer → Borrowing charge826 AcrossReveal answer → Gratuity327 AcrossReveal answer → For the cards, they’re real experts428 AcrossReveal answer → Beams428 AcrossReveal answer → Go on board629 AcrossReveal answer → Prepared to be fired for being drunk629 AcrossReveal answer → Laid-back731 AcrossReveal answer → Silent431 AcrossReveal answer → The stuff the terribly fat fellow ate! Weird!731 AcrossReveal answer → Attendance833 AcrossReveal answer → On paper, wouldn’t you agree, is unqualified?934 AcrossReveal answer → Host934 AcrossReveal answer → Weight334 AcrossReveal answer → Lake435 AcrossReveal answer → Beam336 AcrossReveal answer → Training manoeuvres936 AcrossReveal answer → Managing, when writing the cheque936 AcrossReveal answer → Fastened437 AcrossReveal answer → Lockjaw738 AcrossReveal answer → Think it will bounce back738 AcrossReveal answer → Dismays639 AcrossReveal answer → The plump fish next to639 AcrossReveal answer → Young sheep440 AcrossReveal answer → Quit the side440 AcrossReveal answer → Provide an excuse? Of course. Only too happy!841 AcrossReveal answer → Of the brain or intellect841 AcrossReveal answer → Was not the first to have made good942 AcrossReveal answer → Unanimity942 AcrossReveal answer →

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Underground cemetery81 DownReveal answer → Hoping to be elected to get kudos81 DownReveal answer → Nape62 DownReveal answer → To carry a number of passengers, they’re ludicrous62 DownReveal answer → Implement42 DownReveal answer → Canine83 DownReveal answer → Given a start, I had come ninth in it83 DownReveal answer → Fade43 DownReveal answer → Supplanted84 DownReveal answer → Entices64 DownReveal answer → Find mine won’t work64 DownReveal answer → Increased45 DownReveal answer → Informed85 DownReveal answer → Tending to expand for a while – a year85 DownReveal answer → Deride56 DownReveal answer → Evade106 DownReveal answer → Propose that you make it earlier106 DownReveal answer → Circuit37 DownReveal answer → Cook up77 DownReveal answer → Feature a comedian after the talk77 DownReveal answer → Saying58 DownReveal answer → Distant friend68 DownReveal answer → Open, or not drawn68 DownReveal answer → Dish he’s ordering711 DownReveal answer → Tool711 DownReveal answer → Cabin512 DownReveal answer → Detest513 DownReveal answer → Spoil314 DownReveal answer → Liability515 DownReveal answer → Cold616 DownReveal answer → Heavy and large, having a need to exercise616 DownReveal answer → Tested517 DownReveal answer → Course518 DownReveal answer → Open up to reveal a weapon519 DownReveal answer → Uneven519 DownReveal answer → Wager320 DownReveal answer → Liberation820 DownReveal answer → Look dry320 DownReveal answer → English county522 DownReveal answer → Edge322 DownReveal answer → Be forced to accept the number will decrease drastically522 DownReveal answer → How it will take a breath before diving?623 DownReveal answer → Romp623 DownReveal answer → Despite the fact that the salesman didn’t act hastily1025 DownReveal answer → Mandatory1025 DownReveal answer → Sharp525 DownReveal answer → View526 DownReveal answer → Annoy326 DownReveal answer → Free trip, almost326 DownReveal answer → Advance727 DownReveal answer → Drifts back, flushed, into “The Flying Swan”727 DownReveal answer → Box428 DownReveal answer → Stunt429 DownReveal answer → Pain430 DownReveal answer → Tractable830 DownReveal answer → No longer engaged to, is indifferent830 DownReveal answer → White wine831 DownReveal answer → Say you didn’t mean it, when you regain possession831 DownReveal answer → It informs you how much of a rise you got832 DownReveal answer → Hill332 DownReveal answer → Undeceive832 DownReveal answer → Near as possible to the left side733 DownReveal answer → Trailblazer733 DownReveal answer → Suds635 DownReveal answer → Talk vaguely about providing food635 DownReveal answer → Said the animal is no fool!636 DownReveal answer → Anticipate636 DownReveal answer → Drove mad? Love, you exaggerate!637 DownReveal answer → Not dense637 DownReveal answer →

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