A race finish?(6 letters)
Below is the answer to the crossword clue “A race finish?”, taken from the Evening Standard's Cryptic crossword on 27th January 2026.
The answer is
P
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Other clues that solve to POLISH
The same answer often re-appears with different clues over the years. Tap a clue to open its answer page, or the date to jump straight to that day's puzzle.
- #1 across Lustre (6) 1st May 2026
- #33 down Make perfect (6) 30th January 2026
- #22 down A race finish? (6) 27th January 2026
- #4 across Buff (6) 8th December 2025
- #23 down If French, belies itself (6) 9th July 2025
- #22 down Buff (6) 7th November 2024
- #4 across These people can set a shining example (6) 15th July 2024
- #23 across The language could be French (6) 8th December 2023
- #23 down The suaveness of those Slavs (6) 8th November 2023
- #36 across Refinement of language, apparently (6) 28th September 2023
- #31 across A continental urbanity (6) 28th April 2023
- #14 across Burnish (6) 24th March 2023
- #2 down An un-English suavity (6) 3rd March 2023
- #7 across Burnish (6) 20th February 2023
- #23 down The language could be French (6) 4th November 2022
- #22 down The language for a buff? (6) 2nd November 2022
- #31 across Language (6) 26th August 2022
- #1 down Burnish (6) 13th April 2022
- #13 across Lustre (6) 16th February 2022
- #31 across A continental urbanity (6) 11th February 2022
- #23 down European semblance of urbanity? (6) 18th November 2021
- #1 across Lustre (6) 23rd November 2020
- #22 down A race finish? (6) 22nd September 2020
- #4 across Buff (6) 18th June 2020
- #21 down Surprisingly, perhaps, it may be French (6) 3rd March 2020
- #23 down If French, belies itself (6) 24th April 2019
- #23 across The language could be French (6) 21st December 2018
- #22 down Buff (6) 31st July 2018
- #4 across These people can set a shining example (6) 26th April 2018
- #2 down An un-English suavity (6) 6th April 2018
More clues from this puzzle
Other clues from the same Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on 27th January 2026. Tap Reveal to see an answer, or click the clue to open its own page.
- #1 across Shot on the way to an assignation (5)
- #2 down Make exposures about meat (6)
- #3 down Stand around with a redhead on the beach (6)
- #4 down Behave testily? (3)
- #5 down Part of Twickenham where a try is only a start (5)
- #6 across The area where Patrick goes to church (5)
- #6 down He could fight a bull or rip a cod to pieces! (7)
- #7 down Just a little bit catty? (4)
- #8 down Belief in direct action? (6)
- #9 across Movement of trains to Acton central (7)
- #10 across Each woman has a right to a key part (5)