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Evening Standard Crossword May 23 2018 Answers

Wednesday puzzle · 126 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 126 clues from the Evening Standard Crossword for May 23 2018. 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.

Across

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ClueLetters#Answer
Pushed61 AcrossReveal answer → An engineer of towering reputation61 AcrossReveal answer → Staid53 AcrossReveal answer → Formally kill the wild boar at the field entrance87 AcrossReveal answer → Complete87 AcrossReveal answer → Multitude48 AcrossReveal answer → Not exactly town dress?48 AcrossReveal answer → Dealer69 AcrossReveal answer → Garden shrub610 AcrossReveal answer → Writer610 AcrossReveal answer → Became more sociable, needing a new hat to get married610 AcrossReveal answer → Mysterious611 AcrossReveal answer → Decree511 AcrossReveal answer → The man composed a song611 AcrossReveal answer → Standard412 AcrossReveal answer → Permitted a degree of doubletalk314 AcrossReveal answer → Contend314 AcrossReveal answer → Ignoble415 AcrossReveal answer → Musical sounds516 AcrossReveal answer → Appetising, being of Rita's type516 AcrossReveal answer → Enthusiast717 AcrossReveal answer → Paradise417 AcrossReveal answer → Animal of retrograde breeding?417 AcrossReveal answer → Hoodwinked519 AcrossReveal answer → Being whirled, roughly speaking, its goes round519 AcrossReveal answer → Enclosure320 AcrossReveal answer → Raid, inroad521 AcrossReveal answer → New521 AcrossReveal answer → Group of fliers bashful about a day of victory521 AcrossReveal answer → Filleted522 AcrossReveal answer → Pulled or kicked out of the way522 AcrossReveal answer → Come across and congregate423 AcrossReveal answer → Crew423 AcrossReveal answer → Better than good423 AcrossReveal answer → Awful425 AcrossReveal answer → I'm not possibly associable with Athens526 AcrossReveal answer → Domesticated526 AcrossReveal answer → Tag526 AcrossReveal answer → It could be the one with sun328 AcrossReveal answer → Unit of weight328 AcrossReveal answer → Delve328 AcrossReveal answer → Enthusiastic about centralisation?629 AcrossReveal answer → Primary source629 AcrossReveal answer → Sort of canoe an old soldier may remember630 AcrossReveal answer → Fairies, elves630 AcrossReveal answer → Recovery730 AcrossReveal answer → Violently separated; but again, not loveless431 AcrossReveal answer → Corrosive substance431 AcrossReveal answer → Heading for the nineteenth hole?832 AcrossReveal answer → Shinto, for example832 AcrossReveal answer → Pantihose633 AcrossReveal answer → Weaken, having hesitation633 AcrossReveal answer → Thought433 AcrossReveal answer → Valley435 AcrossReveal answer → Heathen536 AcrossReveal answer → Steered638 AcrossReveal answer → Ill-treat639 AcrossReveal answer → Revolt540 AcrossReveal answer →

Down

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ClueLetters#Answer
Comfort61 DownReveal answer → Excited, robbed of a century, departed from the scene61 DownReveal answer → Rod51 DownReveal answer → Stringed instrument62 DownReveal answer → Best of the bunch?62 DownReveal answer → Devil52 DownReveal answer → Info43 DownReveal answer → Real property, money also43 DownReveal answer → Voyage74 DownReveal answer → Appoint64 DownReveal answer → How the butchers went into business?74 DownReveal answer → Every45 DownReveal answer → Former gold coin55 DownReveal answer → Brief study?55 DownReveal answer → Groove36 DownReveal answer → Yields56 DownReveal answer → Cracksman's companion56 DownReveal answer → Inexpensive57 DownReveal answer → Possess48 DownReveal answer → Inexperienced58 DownReveal answer → Good beer goes like the wind!48 DownReveal answer → Observe39 DownReveal answer → For such days, we need a perfect ending39 DownReveal answer → Fish312 DownReveal answer → Most data is wrong, just a little312 DownReveal answer → Listless713 DownReveal answer → Approaches513 DownReveal answer → Study of French?513 DownReveal answer → Lean514 DownReveal answer → Many finished at the seaside515 DownReveal answer → Heals515 DownReveal answer → Various716 DownReveal answer → Lid518 DownReveal answer → He's said to be in current circulation518 DownReveal answer → Exclude518 DownReveal answer → Cot319 DownReveal answer → Put on319 DownReveal answer → Being a success, is apt to take a bow319 DownReveal answer → Looking embarrassed, having only three of the letters320 DownReveal answer → Residence, informally320 DownReveal answer → Relief for a civic leader on tour721 DownReveal answer → Leaves of a plant721 DownReveal answer → High point of an oratorio322 DownReveal answer → Beseech322 DownReveal answer → Angry522 DownReveal answer → Pugilism623 DownReveal answer → Something like a horseshoe623 DownReveal answer → Joke324 DownReveal answer → A sound eight watchable from the river bank424 DownReveal answer → Girl's name424 DownReveal answer → Stagger like an old junk man?625 DownReveal answer → Chucks625 DownReveal answer → Truck526 DownReveal answer → Pulsating way to make broth526 DownReveal answer → Holy book527 DownReveal answer → Game involving a striker?527 DownReveal answer → Vilify627 DownReveal answer → Dull528 DownReveal answer → Facial twitch328 DownReveal answer → Expected a nobleman to lose a kilo328 DownReveal answer → Sprite529 DownReveal answer → Extracted moisture outright!430 DownReveal answer → Gasp430 DownReveal answer → Worth531 DownReveal answer → Even532 DownReveal answer → Wither434 DownReveal answer → Through336 DownReveal answer → Nothing337 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the Evening Standard crossword published on Wednesday, May 23, 2018. 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.