Cryptic Crossword
The Evening Standard's Cryptic Crossword 2 October 2024 Answers
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1 F
2 Z
3 C
4 E
A
5 S
T
6 E
R
7 A
T
A
L
A
N
T
A
T
I
U
I
M
8 S
9 T
U
F
F
Y
10 S
11 T
R
12 A
P
13 H
E
R
B
F
14 T
H
E
N
15 P
O
L
O
16 S
E
C
E
17 S
18 L
A
B
19 J
20 A
I
L
21 J
O
A
N
O
22 F
A
R
C
23 R
A
N
G
24 K
I
N
G
25 H
26 L
O
W
27 O
28 V
E
R
29 O
30 V
A
31 L
D
32 N
O
O
N
33 S
T
A
G
E
34 R
E
L
E
N
T
A
L
M
N
R
35 E
S
P
R
E
S
S
O
36 S
T
R
O
U
D
K
E
N
Across
- 4. Egg timer (6)
- 7. Legendary loser who got the gold (8)
- 8. Old-fashioned and formal about material matters (6)
- 10. Bind broken parts (5)
- 13. Familiar name for part of a motherboard (4)
- 14. No longer the financial centre (4)
- 15. A game of pool, possibly (4)
- 16. Dry in next to no time (3)
- 17. A piece of cake? (4)
- 19. Yes, the Italian prison! (4)
- 21. Saintly contributor to military history (4,2,3)
- 23. Resounded in the strangest way (4)
- 24. At draughts, he's twice the man he was (4)
- 26. Such pay wouldn't be enough for Michael Owen (3)
- 27. Completed deliveries (4)
- 29. Where to egg on the Surrey team (4)
- 32. When a notion can seem heartless (4)
- 33. It has a special door (for Johnny?) (5)
- 34. Take a more clement view about being on loan (6)
- 35. At the rest centre, journalists have nothing but coffee (8)
- 36. Whence to arrange tours to Land's End? (6)
Down
- 1. Character of the American in rich surroundings (5)
- 2. Large African river or middle-sized English one (5)
- 3. Temporary fireplace! (4)
- 4. Stand a trainee at ease (5)
- 5. What' s left is maybe bust (4)
- 6. He could have engineered a file out of a piece of ferrous metal (6)
- 9. One prepared to work like a horse? (6)
- 11. A southern English article (3)
- 12. So Ann's going around with an old sailor! (5)
- 13. In Belgium or America, a tramp has a name for it (7)
- 15. Is it for all-in cooking? (3)
- 16. Yes Charlie, that quotation is accurate (3)
- 18. Go on past Los Angeles and you'll find it very wet (6)
- 20. Talk of a legendary ship lost at last (5)
- 21. Toothy talk? (3)
- 22. It grows in some parts of Ireland (3)
- 23. Maybe the rat took a ride to the theatre! (6)
- 25. Old Carthaginian witch? (3)
- 28. Showed preference as to whom to give a seat (5)
- 30. Figure a London school to make French-style music (5)
- 31. The answer, perhaps, is distinctly sour (5)
- 32. Being emperor was somewhat onerous (4)
- 33. Arks can sail around it, but no motor cars! (4)