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Evening Standard Crossword October 8 2026 Answers

Thursday puzzle · 128 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 128 clues from the Evening Standard Crossword for October 8 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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ClueLetters#Answer
Cease41 AcrossReveal answer → Shocks53 AcrossReveal answer → Deign to give a drunken sot an operation53 AcrossReveal answer → Tavern34 AcrossReveal answer → Stuff46 AcrossReveal answer → To settle a debt, you need your wage increased58 AcrossReveal answer → Deadly58 AcrossReveal answer → Edge39 AcrossReveal answer → Gold bar510 AcrossReveal answer → Journalist810 AcrossReveal answer → Part of your anatomy that's orange510 AcrossReveal answer → Man of tomorrow311 AcrossReveal answer → And not311 AcrossReveal answer → Imitated411 AcrossReveal answer → Not without a time limit!512 AcrossReveal answer → First-rate512 AcrossReveal answer → Servant713 AcrossReveal answer → Perform for that misguided brute Thomas!713 AcrossReveal answer → Insect314 AcrossReveal answer → Rays515 AcrossReveal answer → A more reasonable, faultless service to the West Indies515 AcrossReveal answer → Prompt516 AcrossReveal answer → It's usually kept in Delaware318 AcrossReveal answer → Pistachio318 AcrossReveal answer → Home for a hundred at least, maybe619 AcrossReveal answer → Considered819 AcrossReveal answer → Coarse fabric619 AcrossReveal answer → Monotonous721 AcrossReveal answer → Within 24 hours, Tex tangled with Andy!721 AcrossReveal answer → Principle521 AcrossReveal answer → Head covering422 AcrossReveal answer → Would be sound timber422 AcrossReveal answer → Discourteous423 AcrossReveal answer → It's good to be accurate423 AcrossReveal answer → Gift823 AcrossReveal answer → Where the Dons may be out to win!724 AcrossReveal answer → Word puzzle724 AcrossReveal answer → Smudge524 AcrossReveal answer → Agitated, one possibly has to know!626 AcrossReveal answer → Skilful626 AcrossReveal answer → Plunder327 AcrossReveal answer → Sustain oneself in theatrical style329 AcrossReveal answer → Cover329 AcrossReveal answer → Teams in agreement with Mr Lynam?531 AcrossReveal answer → Detail431 AcrossReveal answer → Practical joke531 AcrossReveal answer → A tidy worker732 AcrossReveal answer → Metropolis732 AcrossReveal answer → Assure833 AcrossReveal answer → Where the Welsh don't allow rail transport?534 AcrossReveal answer → Be indebted334 AcrossReveal answer → Sea duck534 AcrossReveal answer → Bird food?335 AcrossReveal answer → Generated435 AcrossReveal answer → Beaker335 AcrossReveal answer → Left during the game, perhaps, the light being so weak536 AcrossReveal answer → Expire336 AcrossReveal answer → Uninteresting536 AcrossReveal answer → She isn't angry all day!537 AcrossReveal answer → Sketched437 AcrossReveal answer → Hut537 AcrossReveal answer → Her label's torn538 AcrossReveal answer → Toys538 AcrossReveal answer →

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Landed estate51 DownReveal answer → The club boat's changed course!51 DownReveal answer → Companion72 DownReveal answer → Made a noise and was detected72 DownReveal answer → Fastened42 DownReveal answer → Needy43 DownReveal answer → Rotate44 DownReveal answer → Seating arrangement at the bank?44 DownReveal answer → Meant84 DownReveal answer → Cloud type65 DownReveal answer → Standard45 DownReveal answer → Unique method of organising traffic?65 DownReveal answer → Yearn56 DownReveal answer → Scornful expression56 DownReveal answer → Where the standard is capital56 DownReveal answer → Tear37 DownReveal answer → Punctuation mark57 DownReveal answer → Speak frankly, possibly with spirit57 DownReveal answer → Correct58 DownReveal answer → Also39 DownReveal answer → One gets half an hour at the end of the day39 DownReveal answer → Scum512 DownReveal answer → Milton Keynes for instance, is an unfamiliar place712 DownReveal answer → Tolerant712 DownReveal answer → Lithe513 DownReveal answer → Skill314 DownReveal answer → Levy that makes part-time soldiers cross314 DownReveal answer → Wet earth314 DownReveal answer → Singer515 DownReveal answer → Being a mug, is stony516 DownReveal answer → Photo book516 DownReveal answer → Pungent517 DownReveal answer → Wild party the red-headed woman left517 DownReveal answer → Glib talk517 DownReveal answer → Youthful518 DownReveal answer → Food packing place with a name to shout about719 DownReveal answer → Housebreaker719 DownReveal answer → European, but to the southwest is central Ruislip520 DownReveal answer → Inexpensive520 DownReveal answer → Condemn820 DownReveal answer → The wanderer Damon turns up521 DownReveal answer → Jewelled headdress521 DownReveal answer → Label322 DownReveal answer → Basic723 DownReveal answer → As used for writing home at Eton, perhaps723 DownReveal answer → System of self defence624 DownReveal answer → The plant uncle has to look out for624 DownReveal answer → Rend325 DownReveal answer → Old man of no fixed address325 DownReveal answer → Engine525 DownReveal answer → Pointed526 DownReveal answer → Damon's are said to be old527 DownReveal answer → Practice routine527 DownReveal answer → Food to bake badly, being a bonehead?528 DownReveal answer → Upright528 DownReveal answer → Tart428 DownReveal answer → Generous429 DownReveal answer → Like a brand new pair of heels530 DownReveal answer → Palatable530 DownReveal answer → Pain430 DownReveal answer → Prisoner's room432 DownReveal answer → Sheep332 DownReveal answer → Spoken with love to the right boy432 DownReveal answer → Free fridge part333 DownReveal answer → Container333 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the Evening Standard crossword published on Thursday, October 8, 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.