Cryptic Crossword
The Evening Standard's Cryptic Crossword 13 June 2024 Answers
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1 C
A
M
2 P
U
3 S
4 I
5 L
6 O
A
R
7 T
H
I
N
K
I
N
G
R
8 S
I
9 T
E
S
L
L
10 S
I
T
C
O
M
11 C
U
12 R
A
13 R
E
O
14 E
E
R
15 H
16 L
A
C
E
D
17 N
18 E
W
S
19 M
E
20 G
A
N
G
S
21 D
O
N
O
R
A
S
22 P
E
D
R
O
23 F
24 A
L
25 L
26 S
A
27 G
E
S
Y
28 S
A
L
O
29 M
Y
O
P
I
C
30 B
E
T
T
E
R
I
I
R
31 E
C
H
O
D
32 L
I
N
G
E
R
I
E
E
L
E
G
D
33 F
I
R
M
L
Y
Across
- 1. Insufficient cause to include a politician on educational grounds (6)
- 7. Considering an angular monarch (8)
- 8. Just the place for fancy ties (4)
- 10. Show two words as one, in short (6)
- 11. Poison for which the cure includes a warm heart! (6)
- 14. Always peerless in poetry (3)
- 16. Done up and fortified (5)
- 17. Stories from all directions (4)
- 19. Woman for instance embraced by a man (5)
- 21. Initiator of a reception (5)
- 22. He's out of shape - droopy! (5)
- 23. A drop at a time (4)
- 26. Being wise, saints conceal their age! (5)
- 28. She and Ted are a seasoned couple (3)
- 29. Copy I'm editing in a short-sighted way (6)
- 30. The upper class punter? (6)
- 31. It's unoriginal, we hear (4)
- 32. Hang around, that is, to get some undies (8)
- 33. The business-like way to deal with things? (6)
Down
- 1. U.S. frontiersman's city name (6)
- 2. Those paid for cereals, on the quiet? (6)
- 3. Check in a systematic way (4)
- 4. Isolated devastated ruins outside Los Angeles (7)
- 5. I call for a change of colour (5)
- 6. Looked to have taken the lead by an own-goal (5)
- 8. Cook uses a tin opener in various ways (4)
- 9. The height of rhetoric (3)
- 12. Managed to get the right one (3)
- 13. Drink up in right royal style! (5)
- 15. Hank to his friends, perhaps (5)
- 18. Would you write one like a shot? (5)
- 19. No skinhead in the Ministry of Defence (3)
- 20. It's soft, stick and less than good (3)
- 21. Wanted to catch teacher in the act! (7)
- 22. Go up a second time (3)
- 23. Dad sounds more remote (6)
- 24. Singer of extra special tone? (4)
- 25. Drolly licentious in lofty style (6)
- 26. Seem pleased to be the subject of a graphic exposure? (5)
- 27. Breaking under the hammer? (5)
- 28. Dry in hothouse conditions (3)
- 30. Kind of cake unsuitable for vegetarians? (4)