Evening Standard Crossword March 20 2026 Answers

Friday puzzle · 132 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 132 clues from the Evening Standard Crossword for March 20 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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Shoot61 AcrossReveal answer → Fight65 AcrossReveal answer → Fleet88 AcrossReveal answer → International artificial language99 AcrossReveal answer → Mislaid49 AcrossReveal answer → Would no bait on earth tempt them?99 AcrossReveal answer → Rough young person810 AcrossReveal answer → Hatchet310 AcrossReveal answer → Fly the old in or postpone it until later810 AcrossReveal answer → Excessively sentimental412 AcrossReveal answer → Fish512 AcrossReveal answer → It tells you you're wrong or right to think dinner's ready!412 AcrossReveal answer → Shackle613 AcrossReveal answer → Something absorbing to read about in the cookery book613 AcrossReveal answer → Desert714 AcrossReveal answer → Bought at the grocer's, is the horse mad about them?714 AcrossReveal answer → Large predatory reptile915 AcrossReveal answer → Does it put a severe strain on soldiers to form one?915 AcrossReveal answer → Weep315 AcrossReveal answer → Prohibit317 AcrossReveal answer → Totally impoverished917 AcrossReveal answer → Accepted later that one was like917 AcrossReveal answer → Moo318 AcrossReveal answer → Discover it's how a dog likes to travel in a car718 AcrossReveal answer → Posy718 AcrossReveal answer → Centre319 AcrossReveal answer → Open tin that sufficed620 AcrossReveal answer → Solemn520 AcrossReveal answer → Expel from legal profession620 AcrossReveal answer → Fish321 AcrossReveal answer → Old American man421 AcrossReveal answer → Fairy-like creature421 AcrossReveal answer → Stretch322 AcrossReveal answer → Solidify323 AcrossReveal answer → Going both ways don't, for a change824 AcrossReveal answer → Outfit824 AcrossReveal answer → Bow324 AcrossReveal answer → Corroded526 AcrossReveal answer → When there's work to be got through, "30" know them826 AcrossReveal answer → Decorative carving826 AcrossReveal answer → Rumoured to have lost heart and been repentant428 AcrossReveal answer → Paradise428 AcrossReveal answer → Blast the news!629 AcrossReveal answer → Sweet629 AcrossReveal answer → Statute329 AcrossReveal answer → Old time dance731 AcrossReveal answer → Is it the work of a month for the fisherman to catch it?731 AcrossReveal answer → Island433 AcrossReveal answer → Finally find time to play a game of golf934 AcrossReveal answer → Fall of snow934 AcrossReveal answer → Final834 AcrossReveal answer → Coma635 AcrossReveal answer → Scold636 AcrossReveal answer → At just the right moment, I lead it out myself936 AcrossReveal answer → Short prayers936 AcrossReveal answer → The explosive has more writhing in agony738 AcrossReveal answer → Asian language738 AcrossReveal answer → After a time, go on a new course - assault639 AcrossReveal answer → Cheerful639 AcrossReveal answer → Wolf you flee from440 AcrossReveal answer → Starchy cereal440 AcrossReveal answer → The Sing Sing singer?841 AcrossReveal answer → Process with speed841 AcrossReveal answer → Deliberate - honestly!942 AcrossReveal answer → Information relay942 AcrossReveal answer →

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Hold back by force81 DownReveal answer → Understood to have become popular81 DownReveal answer → Request for aid62 DownReveal answer → Flowers52 DownReveal answer → When the man comes in to see the representatives62 DownReveal answer → Lineage83 DownReveal answer → Take off the hard stuff and make unhappy?83 DownReveal answer → Curse43 DownReveal answer → Claw54 DownReveal answer → Stiff straw hat64 DownReveal answer → For coppers, perhaps, it's something new64 DownReveal answer → Quarrel55 DownReveal answer → Parlour game85 DownReveal answer → Tear unceremoniously in then and try to frighten85 DownReveal answer → Story46 DownReveal answer → Colourful reptile106 DownReveal answer → For a means of cutting it, you can take your pick106 DownReveal answer → Substance essential for health77 DownReveal answer → Lariat57 DownReveal answer → Because of the animal, don't77 DownReveal answer → Horse-drawn carriage68 DownReveal answer → The others turn left to enter, as a consequence68 DownReveal answer → Pale510 DownReveal answer → How to ride when the horse runs apace?711 DownReveal answer → Receded511 DownReveal answer → Blood disease711 DownReveal answer → Wrath512 DownReveal answer → Mirror513 DownReveal answer → Dirge514 DownReveal answer → Dilate515 DownReveal answer → Under516 DownReveal answer → Censored616 DownReveal answer → Confesses to the priest, who looks disapproving616 DownReveal answer → Mental perception519 DownReveal answer → With which the thief broke the jeweller's window to get it?519 DownReveal answer → Gosh, is that a bird call?320 DownReveal answer → Female animal320 DownReveal answer → Wading bird522 DownReveal answer → In which you may make money and clean up522 DownReveal answer → Faints623 DownReveal answer → Left over and under a gate623 DownReveal answer → Breathing complaint1025 DownReveal answer → Think you're able to search above for the thing, with your fingers1025 DownReveal answer → Start525 DownReveal answer → Shot back, too326 DownReveal answer → Ardent admirer326 DownReveal answer → Complete527 DownReveal answer → Stupidly fire a gun inside the vessel727 DownReveal answer → Smears with sticky substance727 DownReveal answer → Pulsate528 DownReveal answer → Made white830 DownReveal answer → And in the holds, working, are the experienced people830 DownReveal answer → Asunder530 DownReveal answer → Arrive from above and vanquish?831 DownReveal answer → Actor831 DownReveal answer → Retain431 DownReveal answer → In case it's the wrong shade for the exterior832 DownReveal answer → Jewish festival832 DownReveal answer → Jetty432 DownReveal answer → Corpse733 DownReveal answer → Also involved a red revolutionary in the trials733 DownReveal answer → Extension to building635 DownReveal answer → That's right; a brown cover in a checked material635 DownReveal answer → Bent on getting inside the marquee636 DownReveal answer → Card game636 DownReveal answer → Nicotinic acid637 DownReveal answer → Is "The Globe Inn" beside that line on the map?637 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the Evening Standard crossword published on Friday, March 20, 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.