Cryptic Crossword
The Evening Standard's Cryptic Crossword 11 April 2023 Answers
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1 P
A
R
2 T
E
3 D
4 S
5 L
6 C
O
H
7 E
D
G
E
H
I
L
L
M
8 G
R
9 U
B
M
M
A
10 P
R
O
U
S
T
11 F
I
12 B
B
13 E
R
O
14 A
S
K
15 K
16 N
O
O
S
E
17 M
18 O
T
H
19 I
N
20 L
A
W
S
P
21 S
T
E
E
R
A
T
22 B
E
S
E
T
23 B
24 A
Y
25 S
26 M
I
27 S
E
R
S
28 S
U
P
T
29 O
C
T
A
V
E
30 F
I
N
E
L
Y
U
I
A
31 O
R
Y
X
L
32 S
I
L
E
N
C
E
R
A
U
E
L
T
33 M
O
N
E
T
S
Across
- 1. Went different ways with soft tread, perhaps (6)
- 7. Battle for the high ground on the border (8)
- 8. Food and a good massage (4)
- 10. Writer of a letter in sport, mischievously? (6)
- 11. He doesn't tell terrible lies (6)
- 14. Call for a skill that's not bad (3)
- 16. A loop or ring through the nose! (5)
- 17. Test the breath of a flier (4)
- 19. Relatively matrimonial! (2,3)
- 21. Guide or prophet out to start trouble (5)
- 22. Surrounded by swarming bees, I leave it (5)
- 23. They can stop you going straight along the coast (4)
- 26. The hoarder of Reims? (5)
- 28. An absorbing and refreshing thing to do (3)
- 29. An eighth of the music (6)
- 30. Very well, it's noisy in the city (6)
- 31. Beastly cross by the end of the story! (4)
- 32. Because of this, comparatively little is heard (8)
- 33. Paintings by Claude (6)
Down
- 1. Gun dogs? (3-3)
- 2. Air traveller possibly hurt by a bit of a crash (6)
- 3. Is it initially due to a misplaced bet? (4)
- 4. Study group formed by marines (7)
- 5. Foolish person to start mobbing wildly! (5)
- 6. College girl (5)
- 8. Billy got out, with heavy heart (4)
- 9. Water needed for us to finish work (3)
- 12. Look humble, not stern (3)
- 13. A shot at writing (5)
- 15. Where dancing's concerned, they're possibly up to Mrs Brown (5)
- 18. An eye for a drink? (5)
- 19. Tis indeed part of Whitsuntide (3)
- 20. Allowed to be occupied (3)
- 21. The humble person set out to get right to the fore (7)
- 22. To complete her name takes a mere trice (3)
- 23. John, whose hairstyle took any form (6)
- 24. Some chaps no longer at the top (4)
- 25. It's pointedly involved in the tracking of certain records (6)
- 26. Small animal of use to a medical person (5)
- 27. Being inactive makes a good person bad! (5)
- 28. His pupils wouldn't miss him (3)
- 30. Make for Maidenhead (4)