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Evening Standard Crossword May 4 2018 Answers

Friday puzzle · 128 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 128 clues from the Evening Standard Crossword for May 4 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.

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Forehead41 AcrossReveal answer → Vase34 AcrossReveal answer → Box46 AcrossReveal answer → Deserted89 AcrossReveal answer → Cover39 AcrossReveal answer → One went into show business many, many years ago89 AcrossReveal answer → Overheard the figure310 AcrossReveal answer → Surround810 AcrossReveal answer → Beverage310 AcrossReveal answer → Show it’s duck meat611 AcrossReveal answer → Particle411 AcrossReveal answer → Fairness611 AcrossReveal answer → Try to get sun and plenty of it612 AcrossReveal answer → Noiseless612 AcrossReveal answer → Painter's mixing board713 AcrossReveal answer → Give one a posting to headquarters713 AcrossReveal answer → For wood, it’s a bargain!414 AcrossReveal answer → Insect314 AcrossReveal answer → Slippery fish414 AcrossReveal answer → Enquired into, when one left the hotel1015 AcrossReveal answer → Bad dreams1015 AcrossReveal answer → Even516 AcrossReveal answer → Does it have a lot to learn about being a pest?817 AcrossReveal answer → Appraise817 AcrossReveal answer → Imperfection718 AcrossReveal answer → Gives one the job of getting the particulars?718 AcrossReveal answer → Wound mark419 AcrossReveal answer → She’s a c-cat!419 AcrossReveal answer → Chaste819 AcrossReveal answer → Set521 AcrossReveal answer → Three times621 AcrossReveal answer → The jacket with the label going to a Dr Turner621 AcrossReveal answer → Dormant823 AcrossReveal answer → Seizing the opportunity for imposing on one’s good nature1724 AcrossReveal answer → State social-security scheme1724 AcrossReveal answer → Turnip524 AcrossReveal answer → Sailor327 AcrossReveal answer → If you say it’s pretty, will it snap back “Phooey”?627 AcrossReveal answer → In short supply627 AcrossReveal answer → Talon429 AcrossReveal answer → Get cheques in the post?429 AcrossReveal answer → Wonderful workers in a bottling factory?730 AcrossReveal answer → Skill730 AcrossReveal answer → Formerly431 AcrossReveal answer → Way in833 AcrossReveal answer → Unsophisticated833 AcrossReveal answer → Sticking together, which is understandable833 AcrossReveal answer → Lettuce334 AcrossReveal answer → Information435 AcrossReveal answer → What you were baking when the oven fused?1035 AcrossReveal answer → Disparaging1035 AcrossReveal answer → Prompt the star436 AcrossReveal answer → Attempt336 AcrossReveal answer → Omit436 AcrossReveal answer → Unusual437 AcrossReveal answer → Made out the sow had been let loose in the fields737 AcrossReveal answer → Meantime737 AcrossReveal answer → Essential character638 AcrossReveal answer → Saves from the mobs, it is stated638 AcrossReveal answer → Wall painting640 AcrossReveal answer → Trees not found in the mountains, we’re told640 AcrossReveal answer → Poem341 AcrossReveal answer → You know him341 AcrossReveal answer → Cloudy842 AcrossReveal answer → Says it isn’t on, anyhow, to me842 AcrossReveal answer →

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The fondness you have for someone you’re stuck on?101 DownReveal answer → Antibiotic drug101 DownReveal answer → Bird of peace42 DownReveal answer → A cheap cut?42 DownReveal answer → Tear42 DownReveal answer → Hobbies83 DownReveal answer → The last thing said is “We’re tumbling in an avalanche”83 DownReveal answer → Stray43 DownReveal answer → Big cat74 DownReveal answer → Writes back first from a boarding house74 DownReveal answer → Oily84 DownReveal answer → Want45 DownReveal answer → Soldier's ordinary uniform115 DownReveal answer → Calling on, for the next bout115 DownReveal answer → Menial56 DownReveal answer → Patron106 DownReveal answer → Do patients, mending, love one being brought in by visitors?106 DownReveal answer → Mine37 DownReveal answer → Desk67 DownReveal answer → Asked to make an offer for the home67 DownReveal answer → Worship58 DownReveal answer → Muscular or active88 DownReveal answer → A shopkeeper with whom no secret is safe?88 DownReveal answer → Land upright and turn510 DownReveal answer → Stories510 DownReveal answer → Fifty-fifty512 DownReveal answer → Courageous513 DownReveal answer → Coach314 DownReveal answer → Culpability515 DownReveal answer → Rodent716 DownReveal answer → A “22” and a really good one716 DownReveal answer → Brilliant517 DownReveal answer → Massive518 DownReveal answer → Porcelain520 DownReveal answer → Brought back, for the clergyman, one pound of meat520 DownReveal answer → Furtive820 DownReveal answer → Ever (poetical)322 DownReveal answer → Somebody snapping the rough sea?722 DownReveal answer → Curl722 DownReveal answer → Leaves tyre marks behind as one heads towards?1123 DownReveal answer → Inoculation1123 DownReveal answer → The bottom ones earn her the greatest income1025 DownReveal answer → Flinch525 DownReveal answer → Penal establishment1025 DownReveal answer → Sending on to be used as a shield?1026 DownReveal answer → Attire526 DownReveal answer → Venture1026 DownReveal answer → Thaw428 DownReveal answer → The highest of the high, in particular828 DownReveal answer → Plates, cups, etc.828 DownReveal answer → Just429 DownReveal answer → Blemish430 DownReveal answer → Had done better than the other stars?831 DownReveal answer → Novice831 DownReveal answer → Intimidate332 DownReveal answer → Shade of red732 DownReveal answer → Tot taking an ice-cream out to eat732 DownReveal answer → Reveal634 DownReveal answer → Am first changing the finale634 DownReveal answer → Canoodle in the wood535 DownReveal answer → Mournful song535 DownReveal answer → Diplomacy439 DownReveal answer → To help, brought round a cold tart439 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the Evening Standard crossword published on Friday, May 4, 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.