Evening Standard Crossword October 20 2023 Answers

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Below are all 128 clues from the Evening Standard Crossword for October 20 2023. 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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Brutal61 AcrossReveal answer → Provide65 AcrossReveal answer → Quarrel88 AcrossReveal answer → But about to call round, you make it clear89 AcrossReveal answer → Ripped49 AcrossReveal answer → Follower89 AcrossReveal answer → Beaker310 AcrossReveal answer → Coin a name, so to speak310 AcrossReveal answer → Tune310 AcrossReveal answer → Duck and offal on show611 AcrossReveal answer → Obstacle611 AcrossReveal answer → Got weaving when I went off key612 AcrossReveal answer → Health centre612 AcrossReveal answer → Incline512 AcrossReveal answer → Aquatic mammal713 AcrossReveal answer → Got along swimmingly when one fawned on713 AcrossReveal answer → Way out414 AcrossReveal answer → Either way, is about to restore order to414 AcrossReveal answer → Confirming that one is the removal man?1015 AcrossReveal answer → Permit315 AcrossReveal answer → Coin-operated machines1015 AcrossReveal answer → Meadow317 AcrossReveal answer → Unmarried man817 AcrossReveal answer → He does like you817 AcrossReveal answer → Strive318 AcrossReveal answer → Said it was awful when cooked718 AcrossReveal answer → Reaches718 AcrossReveal answer → Having the audacity to confront419 AcrossReveal answer → Also319 AcrossReveal answer → Horse's gait419 AcrossReveal answer → Subject520 AcrossReveal answer → Vigour321 AcrossReveal answer → Meal621 AcrossReveal answer → Looking very good, go round621 AcrossReveal answer → Spring322 AcrossReveal answer → Regret323 AcrossReveal answer → Owns324 AcrossReveal answer → Going straight to where your sense tells you to go1724 AcrossReveal answer → Farm vehicles1724 AcrossReveal answer → Poor526 AcrossReveal answer → Show a delight in concealing627 AcrossReveal answer → Himalayan guide627 AcrossReveal answer → Cougar429 AcrossReveal answer → Fright you got on a walk?429 AcrossReveal answer → Colour329 AcrossReveal answer → Obviously730 AcrossReveal answer → Lays it on with "ranches in America"730 AcrossReveal answer → Agitate433 AcrossReveal answer → Magnificence833 AcrossReveal answer → He surprises one with the news, the bounder!833 AcrossReveal answer → Impeded834 AcrossReveal answer → Cases - tea crates - badly damaged1035 AcrossReveal answer → Footballer1035 AcrossReveal answer → Decent635 AcrossReveal answer → Tell636 AcrossReveal answer → Their man then went off to get her436 AcrossReveal answer → Elevator436 AcrossReveal answer → They pinch the children737 AcrossReveal answer → Set of clothes737 AcrossReveal answer → Giving one the business about, in a long discourse638 AcrossReveal answer → Broadest638 AcrossReveal answer → Having happened to be, dropped by640 AcrossReveal answer → Rainbow colour640 AcrossReveal answer → Do wrong or right, by the late sovereign341 AcrossReveal answer → Plaything341 AcrossReveal answer → A solitary fragment of a bathing suit842 AcrossReveal answer → Piece of music842 AcrossReveal answer →

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How fed up Rusty is?101 DownReveal answer → Tactful101 DownReveal answer → Peruse42 DownReveal answer → Soon after, I get on a vegetable42 DownReveal answer → Farewell52 DownReveal answer → Sample83 DownReveal answer → Make smaller homes in the once sprawling periphery83 DownReveal answer → Absent43 DownReveal answer → Enlist54 DownReveal answer → Green74 DownReveal answer → Attracted by, is attached to74 DownReveal answer → Slumber55 DownReveal answer → Forbidding115 DownReveal answer → Work all the while one's in jail?115 DownReveal answer → Compassion46 DownReveal answer → Horned animal106 DownReveal answer → Unscrupulous partner employed in a mine?106 DownReveal answer → Day-break in Spain67 DownReveal answer → Huge57 DownReveal answer → Light wind67 DownReveal answer → US state88 DownReveal answer → Press on the hair - not false88 DownReveal answer → A jerk, to begin with!510 DownReveal answer → Tally510 DownReveal answer → Book of maps510 DownReveal answer → Sheen511 DownReveal answer → Devil512 DownReveal answer → Fat513 DownReveal answer → Each514 DownReveal answer → Bar515 DownReveal answer → Shy516 DownReveal answer → Stutter716 DownReveal answer → Make up your mind to show determination716 DownReveal answer → My leaving Germany out created indignation520 DownReveal answer → Kingdom520 DownReveal answer → Exact722 DownReveal answer → The idea is to show it on a screen722 DownReveal answer → Sweets1123 DownReveal answer → Sold to in its present form1123 DownReveal answer → Insufficient1025 DownReveal answer → Agreeably, though using compulsion?1025 DownReveal answer → Change525 DownReveal answer → Proof that you've made it at last!1026 DownReveal answer → Cut of beef1026 DownReveal answer → Anaesthetic527 DownReveal answer → In business, he no longer handles travel cases828 DownReveal answer → Object528 DownReveal answer → Frightening828 DownReveal answer → Happening530 DownReveal answer → What the parrot did when gently shaken?831 DownReveal answer → Tepid831 DownReveal answer → Excursion431 DownReveal answer → Love is the rage732 DownReveal answer → Most tranquil732 DownReveal answer → List432 DownReveal answer → Snaps in half, inverting to get the silver within634 DownReveal answer → Stinging plant634 DownReveal answer → Exaltation535 DownReveal answer → For the bright, understandable535 DownReveal answer → Reject439 DownReveal answer → Squawk from a bird439 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the Evening Standard crossword published on Friday, October 20, 2023. 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.