Evening Standard Crossword March 5 2026 Answers

Thursday puzzle · 126 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 126 clues from the Evening Standard Crossword for March 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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Shoots one has to prune two ways?61 AcrossReveal answer → Summerhouse61 AcrossReveal answer → Detail61 AcrossReveal answer → Slaughter45 AcrossReveal answer → Looked up to, as entitled87 AcrossReveal answer → Dining room87 AcrossReveal answer → A pet name48 AcrossReveal answer → Military cap48 AcrossReveal answer → Vegetable58 AcrossReveal answer → Purpose39 AcrossReveal answer → Shrub610 AcrossReveal answer → Beast in a bit of a hurry, feet sticking out!610 AcrossReveal answer → Produced410 AcrossReveal answer → Enrages611 AcrossReveal answer → Too stupid to get the right angle?611 AcrossReveal answer → Number411 AcrossReveal answer → Stray512 AcrossReveal answer → Faith613 AcrossReveal answer → Not dry314 AcrossReveal answer → Even as the contractor said314 AcrossReveal answer → Prevalent416 AcrossReveal answer → After a time, alter rashly!516 AcrossReveal answer → Natives of Denmark516 AcrossReveal answer → Rotate417 AcrossReveal answer → Daunted for a day417 AcrossReveal answer → Tore418 AcrossReveal answer → Figures out the tea's stirred, it's milky519 AcrossReveal answer → Sweet substance519 AcrossReveal answer → Offer320 AcrossReveal answer → It counts against one, being in debt521 AcrossReveal answer → Thin biscuit521 AcrossReveal answer → Decay322 AcrossReveal answer → Where holidaymakers have somewhere to swim, note522 AcrossReveal answer → Call on522 AcrossReveal answer → The sailors sounded cocky423 AcrossReveal answer → Foolish323 AcrossReveal answer → Long journey423 AcrossReveal answer → Road424 AcrossReveal answer → Leave425 AcrossReveal answer → Allow to enter526 AcrossReveal answer → Mother and son, possibly free526 AcrossReveal answer → Hot beverage328 AcrossReveal answer → Gun628 AcrossReveal answer → To ring excessively328 AcrossReveal answer → Nab629 AcrossReveal answer → Joined the team629 AcrossReveal answer → Hat630 AcrossReveal answer → Rush to get an advanced place630 AcrossReveal answer → Remained530 AcrossReveal answer → A figure so different from a prophet!431 AcrossReveal answer → Vegetable431 AcrossReveal answer → Go on about the Dome being a propitious sign832 AcrossReveal answer → Eternally832 AcrossReveal answer → Promise432 AcrossReveal answer → Endanger433 AcrossReveal answer → Sketch633 AcrossReveal answer → In red, perhaps, some marks appear a shade deeper633 AcrossReveal answer → Sleep334 AcrossReveal answer → Similar535 AcrossReveal answer → Inter436 AcrossReveal answer → Searches637 AcrossReveal answer →

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Close61 DownReveal answer → Complaints61 DownReveal answer → Group employed to take one to the island61 DownReveal answer → Number62 DownReveal answer → How to take a pride in partnership62 DownReveal answer → Grumble82 DownReveal answer → Leave out43 DownReveal answer → Killed, perhaps, with a single stroke43 DownReveal answer → Moderate63 DownReveal answer → In pieces74 DownReveal answer → Vigorous94 DownReveal answer → Garment the French have suspicion about?74 DownReveal answer → Swimming tutor floundering!55 DownReveal answer → Loaded55 DownReveal answer → Verify75 DownReveal answer → Group46 DownReveal answer → Does it augment the fauna?56 DownReveal answer → Lustre56 DownReveal answer → Sediment47 DownReveal answer → Released without charge48 DownReveal answer → Strange38 DownReveal answer → New Zealand bird48 DownReveal answer → Favourite39 DownReveal answer → A study for which only half turned up39 DownReveal answer → Blithe312 DownReveal answer → Burden that makes us at some stage cross!312 DownReveal answer → Theatrical entertainment513 DownReveal answer → Pass the ball to an opponent?513 DownReveal answer → Rockets914 DownReveal answer → Bulgaria's capital515 DownReveal answer → Plus315 DownReveal answer → Send a taxi half a mile515 DownReveal answer → Mammal317 DownReveal answer → Electricity supply518 DownReveal answer → Can she halve the work for her husband?518 DownReveal answer → A little one's name319 DownReveal answer → Possesses319 DownReveal answer → Income819 DownReveal answer → Link it up with Orient, this match320 DownReveal answer → Mesh320 DownReveal answer → Hit320 DownReveal answer → Having served as a cleaner, finished721 DownReveal answer → Charming721 DownReveal answer → Fatal721 DownReveal answer → Shoot the dope!322 DownReveal answer → Contend322 DownReveal answer → Beliefs623 DownReveal answer → It can be cool, half an hour in the shade623 DownReveal answer → Gets in a bad state424 DownReveal answer → Status424 DownReveal answer → One flying down the touchline?625 DownReveal answer → Young cat625 DownReveal answer → Speaker626 DownReveal answer → Stratum526 DownReveal answer → Stupidly warm and humid?526 DownReveal answer → Birds627 DownReveal answer → Persistent person527 DownReveal answer → Nominal mode of operating in crime527 DownReveal answer → Man of tomorrow?328 DownReveal answer → Foot digit328 DownReveal answer → Explosive429 DownReveal answer → Players utterly banned?430 DownReveal answer → Celebrity430 DownReveal answer → Lost blood430 DownReveal answer → Expire331 DownReveal answer →

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