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Evening Standard Crossword October 2 2026 Answers

Friday puzzle · 134 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 134 clues from the Evening Standard Crossword for October 2 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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Handwriting61 AcrossReveal answer → Danger45 AcrossReveal answer → Flower58 AcrossReveal answer → Lettuce39 AcrossReveal answer → Alternatively99 AcrossReveal answer → Assembled then to go off, one after the other99 AcrossReveal answer → The first lira Gino counterfeited810 AcrossReveal answer → Muddle410 AcrossReveal answer → Bird810 AcrossReveal answer → Ballot411 AcrossReveal answer → "A clout" is an item of apparel412 AcrossReveal answer → Temptress512 AcrossReveal answer → Try412 AcrossReveal answer → Headgear613 AcrossReveal answer → Elbowed613 AcrossReveal answer → Unnerves the many relatives613 AcrossReveal answer → Butt in714 AcrossReveal answer → What the golfing textile manufacturer called his wood?714 AcrossReveal answer → Spiteful915 AcrossReveal answer → Cash the teller didn't receive?915 AcrossReveal answer → Tune416 AcrossReveal answer → The tantrum to end all tantrums, at close of play917 AcrossReveal answer → Remiss917 AcrossReveal answer → News718 AcrossReveal answer → Agreed everything was bound to come out718 AcrossReveal answer → Cheese418 AcrossReveal answer → Owned320 AcrossReveal answer → Appeared620 AcrossReveal answer → The girl I'm giving back the book to620 AcrossReveal answer → Whirl421 AcrossReveal answer → An advantage and more421 AcrossReveal answer → Ocean322 AcrossReveal answer → Age323 AcrossReveal answer → It takes hard workers to keep it provided with meals824 AcrossReveal answer → Dreadful824 AcrossReveal answer → Bundle424 AcrossReveal answer → Gasp425 AcrossReveal answer → House826 AcrossReveal answer → Perform well in, increasing gradually in volume826 AcrossReveal answer → Requirement428 AcrossReveal answer → Covering brought back in order to cover the hole428 AcrossReveal answer → Voucher628 AcrossReveal answer → Pass629 AcrossReveal answer → Dejected, or in some distress629 AcrossReveal answer → Learnt530 AcrossReveal answer → Turn a child against a certain vegetable731 AcrossReveal answer → Right731 AcrossReveal answer → Foundation432 AcrossReveal answer → Croon433 AcrossReveal answer → He's not in an office but catching fish in the country934 AcrossReveal answer → Epoch334 AcrossReveal answer → Joy934 AcrossReveal answer → Started535 AcrossReveal answer → Poke436 AcrossReveal answer → Name of the man crossing the street against the traffic lights?936 AcrossReveal answer → Policeman936 AcrossReveal answer → Lecture637 AcrossReveal answer → Opens the blinds when one arrives738 AcrossReveal answer → Sprang738 AcrossReveal answer → For a cooking utensil, go to where the cooking utensils are kept639 AcrossReveal answer → Mischievous639 AcrossReveal answer → I can dispense with the candle: it's useless440 AcrossReveal answer → So440 AcrossReveal answer → How one regretted sucking the lemon?841 AcrossReveal answer → Setback841 AcrossReveal answer → What the pub's called?942 AcrossReveal answer → Revelation942 AcrossReveal answer →

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Scorn81 DownReveal answer → Moment61 DownReveal answer → Might be better a little cooler81 DownReveal answer → Tool62 DownReveal answer → Remaining82 DownReveal answer → Heaps of small nails62 DownReveal answer → Pound63 DownReveal answer → Fearful83 DownReveal answer → Decreed a raid should be carried out by, one day83 DownReveal answer → Game64 DownReveal answer → Helper94 DownReveal answer → Inclined to be wounding, which is mean64 DownReveal answer → Example85 DownReveal answer → Only looks carefully round, but it makes one feel better85 DownReveal answer → Venerated75 DownReveal answer → Vegetable106 DownReveal answer → Most of the meat delivered to the zoo?106 DownReveal answer → Press46 DownReveal answer → Skipper77 DownReveal answer → Eager47 DownReveal answer → Wind up speaking in a foreign language77 DownReveal answer → Charge68 DownReveal answer → Donkey38 DownReveal answer → I got into the vehicle again with her68 DownReveal answer → Fate711 DownReveal answer → Where the difference between the past and present is great?711 DownReveal answer → Distribution914 DownReveal answer → Wages315 DownReveal answer → An hour after midnight, she gets back home616 DownReveal answer → Middle616 DownReveal answer → Meadow317 DownReveal answer → Night-time819 DownReveal answer → Some calling out in a strange language519 DownReveal answer → Impelled519 DownReveal answer → Witch320 DownReveal answer → A mother has a right to spoil!320 DownReveal answer → Observe320 DownReveal answer → Erased721 DownReveal answer → Liable522 DownReveal answer → And I swerved to one side when she appeared522 DownReveal answer → Slicing liver to give to a woman623 DownReveal answer → Incentive623 DownReveal answer → Played the doctor in the Bond film or stayed out of it1025 DownReveal answer → Nonsense1025 DownReveal answer → The sound of water - didn't I tell you so!326 DownReveal answer → Insect326 DownReveal answer → Thrill626 DownReveal answer → Filter627 DownReveal answer → Favours "directs one's attention to the page before"727 DownReveal answer → Fish727 DownReveal answer → Grasp429 DownReveal answer → Tramp430 DownReveal answer → More than satisfies830 DownReveal answer → Sweet830 DownReveal answer → Pray tell me the name of the girl831 DownReveal answer → Noise331 DownReveal answer → Container831 DownReveal answer → Heard running round the lair and got set832 DownReveal answer → Cherish832 DownReveal answer → Seem half the fools got shut inside the cupboards733 DownReveal answer → Songs733 DownReveal answer → Stopped635 DownReveal answer → Brings back rice (about a pound) and a cake635 DownReveal answer → Music and the sound of bells636 DownReveal answer → Metal636 DownReveal answer → Following637 DownReveal answer → Steal away when the child goes to sleep637 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the Evening Standard crossword published on Friday, October 2, 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.