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The Evening Standard's Cryptic Crossword 20 December 2023 Answers

Please find below all the The Evening Standard's Cryptic Crossword 20 December 2023 Answers. This is one of the most popular crossword puzzles available for both online and in print version. Today's puzzle (20 December 2023) has a total of 44 crossword clues. If you are stuck and are looking for help then you have come to the right place.

It protects one's right to be in love
A
R
M
O
U
R
Race difficulty?
H
A
N
D
I
C
A
P
Enjoy something tasteful
R
E
L
I
S
H
Leaving England's capital for somewhere in Somerset
F
R
O
M
E
Go along for something to eat
R
O
L
L
Lovely and thin
F
I
N
E
A number of elms
N
I
N
E
Mean to go first-class to Maidenhead
A
I
M
Fall excursion
T
R
I
P
Grassy area with some gravel deposits
V
E
L
D
Is such bread a repast in itself?
W
H
O
L
E
M
E
A
L
It'll do to get you by
P
A
S
S
Women who help to make men unselfish
N
U
N
S
It has its day of enrichment!
P
A
Y
Those in the money?
T
H
E
M
Old times usually great
E
R
A
S
Angry about finishing late you need a drink
M
E
A
D
Having left Billy out be smugly exultant
G
L
O
A
T
Vipers can make one sadder
A
D
D
E
R
S
It'll go up after a while
T
I
M
E
B
O
M
B
To be a cadger is an absorbing thing
S
P
O
N
G
E
Husky humour?
C
H
A
F
F
It's a name but if heartless he'd be nameless!
A
N
T
O
N
Term of usefulness of a file?
L
I
F
E
For protection cover a piano right over!
A
P
R
O
N
Where mum needs £50 to go shopping?
M
A
L
L
Not mentioned (being unspeakable?)
U
N
S
A
I
D
One plus one is less than a dozen
E
L
E
V
E
N
It borders on being a centre for crime
R
I
M
A fluid but methinks not writing fluid
M
E
T
H
S
Developed the pier end possibly
R
I
P
E
N
E
D
It can mean a clean sheet love
N
I
L
In political life it means everything
A
L
L
List giving a new store a rousing start
R
O
S
T
E
R
One supportive of an artist's views?
E
A
S
E
L
Route for shipping movement
W
A
Y
Does dad keep quiet about her?
M
U
M
Are such members given more salary?
P
A
I
D
U
P
Sheepish letter to a bachelor
B
A
A
Something to make fast
H
A
S
T
E
Root out a bighead being inhuman
R
O
B
O
T
Remnants of a wrecked bus on the street
S
T
U
B
S
Being niggardly makes me a bit angry
M
E
A
N
Tries to go two ways
G
O
E
S

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Facts and Figures

  • There are a total of 44 clues in the 20 December 2023 The Evening Standard's Cryptic Crossword puzzle.
  • The shortest answer is AIM which contains 3 Characters.
  • Mean to go first-class to Maidenhead is the crossword clue of the shortest answer.
  • The longest answer is WHOLEMEAL which contains 9 Characters.
  • Is such bread a repast in itself? is the crossword clue of the longest answer.
  • The unused letters in 20 December 2023 The Evening Standard's Cryptic Crossword puzzle are J,K,Q,X,Z