Evening Standard Crossword October 21 2022 Answers

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Below are all 128 clues from the Evening Standard Crossword for October 21 2022. 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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Succulent61 AcrossReveal answer → Pillar65 AcrossReveal answer → Disused88 AcrossReveal answer → Dejected and depressed when given the chuck89 AcrossReveal answer → Sensible49 AcrossReveal answer → Inside89 AcrossReveal answer → Through310 AcrossReveal answer → It hums a note for us to hear310 AcrossReveal answer → Number310 AcrossReveal answer → The agreement is, one takes the child611 AcrossReveal answer → Packet611 AcrossReveal answer → For the records, there are about fifty old coins612 AcrossReveal answer → Mariner612 AcrossReveal answer → Confine512 AcrossReveal answer → Struggle713 AcrossReveal answer → The clear round I would contest713 AcrossReveal answer → Seize414 AcrossReveal answer → Only one of the denizens of the deep414 AcrossReveal answer → A yellow jacket you slipped on?1015 AcrossReveal answer → Weaken315 AcrossReveal answer → Measure1015 AcrossReveal answer → Epoch317 AcrossReveal answer → Strangle817 AcrossReveal answer → Resign or take a demotion817 AcrossReveal answer → Fish318 AcrossReveal answer → Apart from the team that's finished batting718 AcrossReveal answer → Mutinous718 AcrossReveal answer → Due to ring the day after419 AcrossReveal answer → Odd319 AcrossReveal answer → Place419 AcrossReveal answer → Unadorned520 AcrossReveal answer → Mineral321 AcrossReveal answer → Prying621 AcrossReveal answer → Going ahead with the draw? No; backtracking621 AcrossReveal answer → Wrath322 AcrossReveal answer → Pinch323 AcrossReveal answer → Still324 AcrossReveal answer → Thwarting the nail's desire not to be hammered home?1724 AcrossReveal answer → Venturing1724 AcrossReveal answer → Shrill526 AcrossReveal answer → Contract, perhaps, that engineers might find lucrative627 AcrossReveal answer → Behind627 AcrossReveal answer → Finished429 AcrossReveal answer → Sharpen the damaged point first429 AcrossReveal answer → Newt329 AcrossReveal answer → Imitation730 AcrossReveal answer → Wasn't fast in the water either and was not among the winners730 AcrossReveal answer → Borough433 AcrossReveal answer → Concluded833 AcrossReveal answer → Negotiates terms to achieve local profits833 AcrossReveal answer → Pulling834 AcrossReveal answer → Look you give the bank statement showing you're broke?1035 AcrossReveal answer → Ornamental light fitting1035 AcrossReveal answer → Plague635 AcrossReveal answer → Die636 AcrossReveal answer → Mix in a jug436 AcrossReveal answer → Difficult436 AcrossReveal answer → By way of the tube, getting to the bridge737 AcrossReveal answer → Listless737 AcrossReveal answer → The song is totally dreadful, all round638 AcrossReveal answer → Decrease638 AcrossReveal answer → How quietly a cat will spring on its prey640 AcrossReveal answer → Bottle640 AcrossReveal answer → Close, aim341 AcrossReveal answer → Child341 AcrossReveal answer → Seemed ill at ease and got all mixed up842 AcrossReveal answer → Flowering plant842 AcrossReveal answer →

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Working as a stewardess and jumping ship?101 DownReveal answer → Forebear101 DownReveal answer → Expression42 DownReveal answer → She's retracted, too42 DownReveal answer → Stroll52 DownReveal answer → Spice83 DownReveal answer → Item of furniture that's to be repaired as well83 DownReveal answer → Implement43 DownReveal answer → Precipitous54 DownReveal answer → Warship74 DownReveal answer → Is unsuited for running fast74 DownReveal answer → Best55 DownReveal answer → Contest115 DownReveal answer → When the film "The Prisoner" will be on show?115 DownReveal answer → Deficit46 DownReveal answer → Look106 DownReveal answer → Result of crossing a reptile with a bird?106 DownReveal answer → That's not fair, I like being in bed67 DownReveal answer → Madness57 DownReveal answer → Intelligent67 DownReveal answer → Happened88 DownReveal answer → One's successor as a swain?88 DownReveal answer → Refuse to put one through to him510 DownReveal answer → Function510 DownReveal answer → Commerce510 DownReveal answer → Send511 DownReveal answer → Antic512 DownReveal answer → Astound513 DownReveal answer → Coin514 DownReveal answer → Incline515 DownReveal answer → Fold516 DownReveal answer → Thin, slow flow716 DownReveal answer → The graduate joined the firm and is about to take flight716 DownReveal answer → All there for the opening, we're told520 DownReveal answer → Prostrate520 DownReveal answer → Particular722 DownReveal answer → We have, due to trouble, to get rid of722 DownReveal answer → Inferior1123 DownReveal answer → How quickly one prepares to roll both dice?1123 DownReveal answer → Casual1025 DownReveal answer → Remember you mustn't take cover?1025 DownReveal answer → Elicit525 DownReveal answer → You being a highly paid member of the publisher's staff1026 DownReveal answer → Improbable1026 DownReveal answer → Go in527 DownReveal answer → Response to what the soldiers did?828 DownReveal answer → Hang528 DownReveal answer → Appropriate828 DownReveal answer → Baffle530 DownReveal answer → Attack and knock the sailor unconscious831 DownReveal answer → Roundabout831 DownReveal answer → Tangle431 DownReveal answer → A competition, as opposed to an exam732 DownReveal answer → Fish732 DownReveal answer → Cease432 DownReveal answer → Attacking in an attempt to get a piece of jewellery634 DownReveal answer → Blue dye634 DownReveal answer → Foreign nobleman535 DownReveal answer → Pronounce fit535 DownReveal answer → Expensive439 DownReveal answer → That boost kleptomaniacs get when they steal?439 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the Evening Standard crossword published on Friday, October 21, 2022. 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.