Cryptic Crossword
The Evening Standard's Cryptic Crossword 16 August 2022 Answers
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1 S
2 A
3 B
4 S
C
5 R
A
6 P
E
7 M
I
S
T
A
K
E
N
A
I
A
T
N
8 O
9 P
P
O
S
E
10 S
11 P
E
12 A
K
13 T
O
O
T
T
14 H
E
R
S
15 F
I
T
S
16 L
O
G
N
17 S
18 P
E
D
19 T
20 A
I
L
21 R
E
A
D
Y
22 M
A
D
E
23 M
U
T
T
24 S
A
L
E
25 R
26 G
E
M
27 H
28 O
U
R
29 P
30 L
U
31 S
N
32 R
O
A
M
33 S
T
E
E
L
34 R
I
P
E
S
T
I
M
E
A
I
35 H
A
N
D
S
O
M
E
36 P
L
A
N
K
S
E
N
P
Across
- 4. Jam, maybe, but not much butter (6)
- 7. Erroneous investment in some mines (8)
- 8. Discourage an insincere attitude to work (6)
- 10. Rugged peaks, say (5)
- 13. Sound excessively thick-headed (4)
- 14. Mother Shipton's? (4)
- 15. It's in extremes of feverishness that one has outbursts (4)
- 16. Piece of ideology in a book (3)
- 17. Speed past (4)
- 19. The end of a cricket team? (4)
- 21. Prepared to be persuaded not to measure (5,4)
- 23. Jeff's canine companion? (4)
- 24. The provision, for money, of a small drink (4)
- 26. Usually brilliant bit of management (3)
- 27. It's said to be our time (4)
- 29. Sign of augmentation (4)
- 32. A duck and a sheep out to go astray (4)
- 33. Something hard for the butcher to take in hand? (5)
- 34. Most mature priest, possibly (6)
- 35. A dishy worker, and that's not all (8)
- 36. The two known for their thickness? (6)
Down
- 1. An accident on court? (5)
- 2. Schoolmaster's bloomer? (5)
- 3. Worth robbing? You can depend on it! (4)
- 4. Nose not so broken (5)
- 5. Transported or carried away (4)
- 6. Shakespeare character, terribly spoilt (6)
- 9. Sort of order sent to pals? (6)
- 11. As used in writing a pointed article? (3)
- 12. Seats arranged to advantage (5)
- 13. What a neat mathematical problem is worth? (4,3)
- 15. Finally stuffed with food? (3)
- 16. But evidently it does merit some belief (3)
- 18. The sadness of a way that's so crooked (6)
- 20. Taped in expert style (5)
- 21. Not that favourite trumpet piece? How odd! (3)
- 22. Annual share of the market, in short (3)
- 23. Melina's new servant (6)
- 25. Growing regret? (3)
- 28. Minced or not, they aren't particularly nice (5)
- 30. Bitter variety of melon (5)
- 31. At bedtime, go to it! (5)
- 32. Restraint gets Irene no end upset! (4)
- 33. Des and I make a team (4)