Evening Standard Crossword October 23 2026 Answers

Friday puzzle · 130 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 130 clues from the Evening Standard Crossword for October 23 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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Respond51 AcrossReveal answer → Feverish65 AcrossReveal answer → Proportion58 AcrossReveal answer → Like a schoolmaster on holiday - not at his best99 AcrossReveal answer → Meddle99 AcrossReveal answer → Spying910 AcrossReveal answer → Summerhouse610 AcrossReveal answer → With blurred vision, it is not very understandable910 AcrossReveal answer → Finished411 AcrossReveal answer → Lap up wallop412 AcrossReveal answer → Wood412 AcrossReveal answer → Beach613 AcrossReveal answer → Made an effort, but the best end got overcooked613 AcrossReveal answer → Cultivation714 AcrossReveal answer → Audacious614 AcrossReveal answer → Justify one's desire to get hold of an expensive car714 AcrossReveal answer → Not whom you wish to escort and not when915 AcrossReveal answer → Eat715 AcrossReveal answer → Enthusiasm915 AcrossReveal answer → Writes in red "Is possibly a vending machine"917 AcrossReveal answer → Rival917 AcrossReveal answer → Tell to check the numbers718 AcrossReveal answer → Gratuity318 AcrossReveal answer → Attack718 AcrossReveal answer → When eleven was sounded, seemed tired619 AcrossReveal answer → Clergyman619 AcrossReveal answer → Spike319 AcrossReveal answer → Issue420 AcrossReveal answer → Only fifty-one420 AcrossReveal answer → Dungeon421 AcrossReveal answer → Loud and just awful923 AcrossReveal answer → Helper923 AcrossReveal answer → Start523 AcrossReveal answer → Legend424 AcrossReveal answer → Exhausted, it is clear, by the bumpy ride925 AcrossReveal answer → Conceited925 AcrossReveal answer → Buttonhole the girl426 AcrossReveal answer → Places426 AcrossReveal answer → Frightened627 AcrossReveal answer → Number327 AcrossReveal answer → Slide over and quickly get into627 AcrossReveal answer → Overcome729 AcrossReveal answer → Longing329 AcrossReveal answer → Witnesses the seizure and considers it right to729 AcrossReveal answer → Erased731 AcrossReveal answer → Reiterate632 AcrossReveal answer → What silly butchers do at their conference?932 AcrossReveal answer → Dependants932 AcrossReveal answer → Border434 AcrossReveal answer → It's ice on the peak, you fool!934 AcrossReveal answer → Festival934 AcrossReveal answer → Programme635 AcrossReveal answer → Reveals unintentionally that one does tailoring alterations735 AcrossReveal answer → Pamphlet735 AcrossReveal answer → Would show the niece to be possibly about five636 AcrossReveal answer → Bet636 AcrossReveal answer → Therefore437 AcrossReveal answer → Cracked back "Will flabbergast you"437 AcrossReveal answer → Curse938 AcrossReveal answer → Sovereign538 AcrossReveal answer → It ensures that the pan won't get burnt938 AcrossReveal answer → Ignore939 AcrossReveal answer → Won't have it the lad is slow, anyhow939 AcrossReveal answer → Blush639 AcrossReveal answer → Lure540 AcrossReveal answer →

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He's not the first to be an adherent81 DownReveal answer → Apathetic81 DownReveal answer → Surprisingly122 DownReveal answer → They don't represent a lot of money to a restaurateur!122 DownReveal answer → Epoch32 DownReveal answer → Scattered83 DownReveal answer → Put right in to touch, shrink from83 DownReveal answer → Fold63 DownReveal answer → Holds up64 DownReveal answer → Lay it on with "I am to act as model"64 DownReveal answer → Tag34 DownReveal answer → Cowl45 DownReveal answer → Worry85 DownReveal answer → Will it bleat if you don't take it for a walk?85 DownReveal answer → Member of the clergy66 DownReveal answer → It means a mass shouting106 DownReveal answer → Honest106 DownReveal answer → Bludgeon67 DownReveal answer → Was the first time and one took a good look round it77 DownReveal answer → Rock77 DownReveal answer → Be first, perhaps, to last the person you can most rely on108 DownReveal answer → Famous108 DownReveal answer → Tease79 DownReveal answer → Doesn't go off to get the props511 DownReveal answer → Prize511 DownReveal answer → Tank312 DownReveal answer → Mature413 DownReveal answer → Having no French polish!616 DownReveal answer → Rest616 DownReveal answer → Sole416 DownReveal answer → Relaxed517 DownReveal answer → Snip319 DownReveal answer → Note that starts off the dawn chorus319 DownReveal answer → Renovation720 DownReveal answer → June 24th1221 DownReveal answer → Now that I think about it, no!1221 DownReveal answer → Adore422 DownReveal answer → Game622 DownReveal answer → Don't go for a decent run!622 DownReveal answer → Regards1023 DownReveal answer → To start with be embarrassed by the early enthusiasm1023 DownReveal answer → Killing624 DownReveal answer → How the camper with the evil designs came to grief?1024 DownReveal answer → Charge1024 DownReveal answer → Offer325 DownReveal answer → Have a quarter on hold325 DownReveal answer → Sort425 DownReveal answer → Respected626 DownReveal answer → Venerate628 DownReveal answer → Traitor828 DownReveal answer → Gives one about ten, all crumpled, to iron828 DownReveal answer → Negligent829 DownReveal answer → What was paid for the leopard?829 DownReveal answer → Answers830 DownReveal answer → Horse330 DownReveal answer → Order it up when you have a meal on the ship830 DownReveal answer → It's bearing your weight so do not shake it731 DownReveal answer → Announce731 DownReveal answer → People no longer speak it, but Upman can533 DownReveal answer → Gull433 DownReveal answer → Loop533 DownReveal answer → Humour634 DownReveal answer → Complains about a number of the shades634 DownReveal answer → Obtain336 DownReveal answer → Immerse337 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the Evening Standard crossword published on Friday, October 23, 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.