Cryptic Crossword
The Evening Standard's Cryptic Crossword 16 May 2018 Answers
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1 B
O
T
2 T
L
3 E
4 S
5 M
6 P
O
H
7 D
I
S
P
L
A
C
E
W
8 A
R
9 E
A
A
R
T
10 I
N
F
I
R
M
11 I
N
12 S
I
13 S
T
N
14 A
C
E
15 B
16 I
T
A
L
Y
17 G
18 O
R
E
19 M
O
20 N
E
Y
E
U
21 B
A
S
I
L
P
T
22 C
U
T
U
P
23 P
24 O
T
25 S
26 S
E
27 N
O
R
N
28 C
A
D
E
29 C
R
I
N
G
E
30 S
O
L
D
E
R
O
C
L
31 O
W
L
S
M
32 P
R
E
S
A
G
E
S
I
O
E
R
R
33 O
L
D
M
A
N
Across
- 1. Dutch courage? (6)
- 7. Evict from a girl's home (8)
- 8. Surface extent of a square amphitheatre (4)
- 10. Not fit to be part of the business (6)
- 11. Is available in tins, perhaps, if you demand (6)
- 14. There can be only one winner (3)
- 16. Land of liberated laity (5)
- 17. Turn red, almost, with all that blood (4)
- 19. It's paid to many an individual on the 4th of July (5)
- 21. Leaves a contribution for the salad (5)
- 22. Deeply distressed, all to pieces (3,2)
- 23. Shoots for trophies (4)
- 26. Points to a piece of work by a Spaniard (5)
- 28. He's a bit decadent (3)
- 29. Between cigarette ends, the band will fawn or grovel (6)
- 30. I leave a fighting man to form a union (6)
- 31. They have beaks (or hooters?) (4)
- 32. Foretells a woman's secret in the newspapers (8)
- 33. He's the boss, dear fellow (3,3)
Down
- 1. Bent on milking the applause? (6)
- 2. How often to have hot cereal on Tuesday (6)
- 3. Made up with cheese (4)
- 4. Pet arrangement in Spain for the Spanish (7)
- 5. Her mother has a strange air (5)
- 6. Sort of larceny associated with cash (5)
- 8. How one may travel in seafaring (4)
- 9. Sooner than get here breathless (3)
- 12. Hardly the place to live in style! (3)
- 13. Was unaware of breaking step going round the corner (5)
- 15. As an officer, he has his own chair (5)
- 18. Peripheral tour arranged around mid-September (5)
- 19. Basis of wrestling? (3)
- 20. A little drink with a pin-up (3)
- 21. His dark deeds needn't be at night (7)
- 22. Deceive a man of conviction (3)
- 23. Looking sickly, paid about £50 (6)
- 24. But they could be evens! (4)
- 25. A good talking to (6)
- 26. Opportunity to use vision? (5)
- 27. Finer resort and tourist centre (5)
- 28. Female dairy supplier (3)
- 30. It's fair to use the same word twice (2-2)