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Evening Standard Crossword May 24 2024 Answers

Friday puzzle · 127 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 127 clues from the Evening Standard Crossword for May 24 2024. 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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Dandy41 AcrossReveal answer → Rotter34 AcrossReveal answer → Famish68 AcrossReveal answer → Enthusiast69 AcrossReveal answer → Finish off with an excellent left89 AcrossReveal answer → Finnish capital89 AcrossReveal answer → Enemy310 AcrossReveal answer → Gosh, key-holes - two of them!310 AcrossReveal answer → Health resort310 AcrossReveal answer → Affects, when one applies it611 AcrossReveal answer → Crowd scene actors611 AcrossReveal answer → Wrapped up in and sheltered from the elements612 AcrossReveal answer → Freight512 AcrossReveal answer → Complete failure612 AcrossReveal answer → Natural home713 AcrossReveal answer → Is all over, giving the wrong ideas to713 AcrossReveal answer → Not, you say, the green collar414 AcrossReveal answer → Hoax514 AcrossReveal answer → Military force414 AcrossReveal answer → Slow down1015 AcrossReveal answer → Shed and shamble away from1015 AcrossReveal answer → Custom515 AcrossReveal answer → Eat too much egg ourselves: it's lovely817 AcrossReveal answer → Channel island817 AcrossReveal answer → Sheen618 AcrossReveal answer → University department718 AcrossReveal answer → Cooked (it's British-grown)718 AcrossReveal answer → Information419 AcrossReveal answer → A certain amount is mentioned419 AcrossReveal answer → Reply620 AcrossReveal answer → Now in trim for the procession621 AcrossReveal answer → Month621 AcrossReveal answer → The Virgin Queen1724 AcrossReveal answer → Accepting the rebuke for having taken the wrong seat?1724 AcrossReveal answer → Coat524 AcrossReveal answer → Thick526 AcrossReveal answer → Equally proficiently, too627 AcrossReveal answer → Flaw627 AcrossReveal answer → Tranquillity528 AcrossReveal answer → Ladder step429 AcrossReveal answer → Animal fur, we're told429 AcrossReveal answer → Seamen730 AcrossReveal answer → Insect330 AcrossReveal answer → Bringing the boys back to carry the can is disgraceful730 AcrossReveal answer → Abandon632 AcrossReveal answer → Choice633 AcrossReveal answer → Could be a hunter with a gun833 AcrossReveal answer → Eruption833 AcrossReveal answer → Employer434 AcrossReveal answer → The re-opening is a revelation1035 AcrossReveal answer → Rabble335 AcrossReveal answer → Tall building1035 AcrossReveal answer → Yield436 AcrossReveal answer → Continent436 AcrossReveal answer → Shut up and run!436 AcrossReveal answer → Agony737 AcrossReveal answer → Bill has a t-title737 AcrossReveal answer → Baby's plaything638 AcrossReveal answer → Being observant, but not in the middle of the night!638 AcrossReveal answer → Squalid640 AcrossReveal answer → Is, perhaps, not given to being uncommunicative640 AcrossReveal answer → After deductions341 AcrossReveal answer → See an indication of going to seed341 AcrossReveal answer → Resident842 AcrossReveal answer → Posted a worker on guard, but he's not there842 AcrossReveal answer →

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Intentional101 DownReveal answer → Peeping at the sun in the morning101 DownReveal answer → Employs42 DownReveal answer → Additional52 DownReveal answer → It's a job to cover the inside42 DownReveal answer → Lazy83 DownReveal answer → Be framing a picture of the old prison83 DownReveal answer → Perpendicular73 DownReveal answer → Key44 DownReveal answer → Road74 DownReveal answer → Aim to capture, also, the soldiers74 DownReveal answer → Nap45 DownReveal answer → Map-making115 DownReveal answer → In love with, but being discouraged by115 DownReveal answer → Vagrant56 DownReveal answer → Footballer106 DownReveal answer → Sign that reveals a lack of character106 DownReveal answer → Suggest77 DownReveal answer → Reach67 DownReveal answer → Deprive of a pension, but few tears are shed about that67 DownReveal answer → Opposed to, one learned, darn it!88 DownReveal answer → Innocuous88 DownReveal answer → Just kidding - refuse510 DownReveal answer → Sword510 DownReveal answer → Sash311 DownReveal answer → Pass312 DownReveal answer → Scull313 DownReveal answer → Gamble316 DownReveal answer → Difficult to catch716 DownReveal answer → Worried after the soldier climbs aboard the ship716 DownReveal answer → Brown317 DownReveal answer → Vain719 DownReveal answer → Pale520 DownReveal answer → Happen to have the duplicate keys in our possession520 DownReveal answer → Pinch321 DownReveal answer → Ape722 DownReveal answer → Reprimands some members of the crew722 DownReveal answer → Doubter722 DownReveal answer → Spy1123 DownReveal answer → Certain to order tea to be brought in. It's typical of1123 DownReveal answer → Regret323 DownReveal answer → "The Amateur Poet," the title is translated into1025 DownReveal answer → Vase325 DownReveal answer → Subsequently1025 DownReveal answer → Pasta1026 DownReveal answer → It's exactly like "The Phantom Bellman"1026 DownReveal answer → Guide527 DownReveal answer → Paint828 DownReveal answer → Hurry up and start climbing the ladder!828 DownReveal answer → Throng529 DownReveal answer → Particle430 DownReveal answer → Grave431 DownReveal answer → Precision831 DownReveal answer → People pass on - one's hidden inside831 DownReveal answer → Tropical storm732 DownReveal answer → A discarded cigarette-holder732 DownReveal answer → Alcoholic drink634 DownReveal answer → What the "in" people have to eat634 DownReveal answer → Penniless, informally535 DownReveal answer → Two forty for both535 DownReveal answer → Sound that will blend in with the others?439 DownReveal answer → Sort439 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the Evening Standard crossword published on Friday, May 24, 2024. 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.