Evening Standard Crossword October 22 2026 Answers

Thursday puzzle · 130 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 130 clues from the Evening Standard Crossword for October 22 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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Managing61 AcrossReveal answer → Dutch cheese53 AcrossReveal answer → Jack, that touchy fellow53 AcrossReveal answer → Place45 AcrossReveal answer → Artery58 AcrossReveal answer → Many have spoken of what is ethical58 AcrossReveal answer → Satan58 AcrossReveal answer → Expert39 AcrossReveal answer → It's not played at school!510 AcrossReveal answer → Wine410 AcrossReveal answer → Vote in510 AcrossReveal answer → Little beast very quietly going out of turn311 AcrossReveal answer → Peel411 AcrossReveal answer → Cooking vessel311 AcrossReveal answer → It can carry a humorist ahead512 AcrossReveal answer → Go in512 AcrossReveal answer → Irritate512 AcrossReveal answer → Vacation713 AcrossReveal answer → Negligible little chap713 AcrossReveal answer → Panted613 AcrossReveal answer → Speak515 AcrossReveal answer → Writer of notes who overdid the hearty bit?515 AcrossReveal answer → Herb416 AcrossReveal answer → Insane318 AcrossReveal answer → Salt in cigarettes?318 AcrossReveal answer → Gang418 AcrossReveal answer → Stop showing a boy it's wrong619 AcrossReveal answer → Chief manservant619 AcrossReveal answer → Insect320 AcrossReveal answer → A harp composition by the Spanish artist721 AcrossReveal answer → Frankness721 AcrossReveal answer → Gemstone422 AcrossReveal answer → Bird you could have for a lira?422 AcrossReveal answer → Observe322 AcrossReveal answer → Pudding ingredient423 AcrossReveal answer → Engineers' morning paper?423 AcrossReveal answer → Headgear323 AcrossReveal answer → Debilitates724 AcrossReveal answer → Train fellows who ran about a mile, maybe724 AcrossReveal answer → Enormous424 AcrossReveal answer → Plague425 AcrossReveal answer → Hit twenty, followed by 500626 AcrossReveal answer → Defence pleas626 AcrossReveal answer → Locating628 AcrossReveal answer → One must do so or die in the attempt329 AcrossReveal answer → Epoch329 AcrossReveal answer → Stadium530 AcrossReveal answer → Of the kidneys531 AcrossReveal answer → Very fast, but possibly not on the way to town531 AcrossReveal answer → Bohemian types in dire straits?732 AcrossReveal answer → Fairy432 AcrossReveal answer → Favours732 AcrossReveal answer → Ill433 AcrossReveal answer → Defeats in slick style534 AcrossReveal answer → Also334 AcrossReveal answer → Hints534 AcrossReveal answer → Little beast, a bit of a crook335 AcrossReveal answer → Finished535 AcrossReveal answer → Insect335 AcrossReveal answer → A loch or lake, even536 AcrossReveal answer → Haul436 AcrossReveal answer → Lizard536 AcrossReveal answer → Write to New York for her537 AcrossReveal answer → Plod637 AcrossReveal answer → Petticoats537 AcrossReveal answer → They keep a check on a dissipated siren538 AcrossReveal answer → Horde538 AcrossReveal answer →

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Fee61 DownReveal answer → Leave a musical production in success51 DownReveal answer → Warehouse51 DownReveal answer → Urgent82 DownReveal answer → Excellent finance72 DownReveal answer → Barely adequate72 DownReveal answer → Approached63 DownReveal answer → The actual part of Ealing with a tourist centre44 DownReveal answer → Futile94 DownReveal answer → Comply44 DownReveal answer → Expanse75 DownReveal answer → Not the pick of one's working implements65 DownReveal answer → Swallow65 DownReveal answer → Attentive56 DownReveal answer → Couple46 DownReveal answer → Vocal accents adding weight to certain points56 DownReveal answer → Neat47 DownReveal answer → Sharp57 DownReveal answer → Slips across the road57 DownReveal answer → Consumed38 DownReveal answer → Woman's name39 DownReveal answer → Manage to keep chickens?39 DownReveal answer → Explosive military leader?712 DownReveal answer → Oars712 DownReveal answer → Karate expert314 DownReveal answer → Administered914 DownReveal answer → Drawing a politician out314 DownReveal answer → Encountered315 DownReveal answer → Pseudonym516 DownReveal answer → Get ready to eat, perhaps516 DownReveal answer → Articles about troubled times?517 DownReveal answer → Shelter317 DownReveal answer → Mistake517 DownReveal answer → Emitted819 DownReveal answer → Street musicians719 DownReveal answer → Traders always ready to give a hand?719 DownReveal answer → See rust as the hard outer part520 DownReveal answer → Sea-bird320 DownReveal answer → As yet520 DownReveal answer → Hut521 DownReveal answer → Ripping721 DownReveal answer → Where to get a possibly iron-framed piano521 DownReveal answer → Steal723 DownReveal answer → Went back to bed723 DownReveal answer → Osier624 DownReveal answer → Be unhappy about the dilapidated pier, by the way624 DownReveal answer → On which to stand a drink, perhaps325 DownReveal answer → Before325 DownReveal answer → Itinerant626 DownReveal answer → Disregard627 DownReveal answer → Protection for a fielder?527 DownReveal answer → Horizontal527 DownReveal answer → Monarch with only one foot?528 DownReveal answer → Supports528 DownReveal answer → Rushed429 DownReveal answer → Underground vault530 DownReveal answer → Rock may be suitable for the foundation530 DownReveal answer → Region430 DownReveal answer → Help331 DownReveal answer → Fruit432 DownReveal answer → Like a family relocated in Okinawa432 DownReveal answer → Boy starting school, getting ahead333 DownReveal answer → Biblical priest333 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the Evening Standard crossword published on Thursday, October 22, 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.