Cryptic Crossword
The Evening Standard's Cryptic Crossword 17 April 2018 Answers
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1 G
2 E
N
3 O
4 A
5 A
6 O
7 B
E
8 S
E
L
9 S
T
A
N
D
B
Y
U
10 P
I
X
I
E
V
11 T
R
A
M
P
C
R
12 M
I
T
R
E
M
13 M
I
14 N
I
M
A
L
U
15 M
E
16 T
17 O
T
I
S
C
18 A
D
M
I
R
E
R
G
19 N
O
B
L
E
D
X
20 A
21 S
H
C
A
N
E
22 P
A
23 P
A
24 L
I
T
T
25 T
R
E
A
S
O
N
M
26 H
A
B
I
T
R
T
27 F
I
N
A
L
G
28 H
A
L
A
L
L
29 R
I
G
H
T
E
D
S
30 R
E
A
D
E
T
31 M
E
T
H
S
Across
- 1. Cake munched at the back of the parsonage (5)
- 6. Rotund wild bees are too well fed (5)
- 9. Merely look on as a useful thing to have available (5,2)
- 10. Fairy keeping a team in food (5)
- 11. Poor fellow from a backward part around Minehead (5)
- 12. It's religiously worn in a certain joint (5)
- 13. One letter, in sorting mail, is not much! (7)
- 15. Joined the police (3)
- 17. Hypnotist's name? (4)
- 18. Distractedly dream about one to worship (6)
- 19. Lord, he's no end of trouble! (5)
- 20. Its nominal contents are not inflammable (6)
- 22. In public address, the dear old chap repeats himself (4)
- 24. Set alight during the Blitz (3)
- 25. Crime with a Middle Eastern motive (7)
- 26. Tabitha's thankless usual arrangement? (5)
- 27. Ultimate piece of reproof in a long lecture (5)
- 28. Those butcher boys (5)
- 29. Corrected by the appropriate editor (7)
- 30. Peruse a letter from a novelist (5)
- 31. Liquid, methinks not ink (5)
Down
- 2. Draw out what is notedly lawful (6)
- 3. Ancient god, or Isis, possibly (6)
- 4. Dined in a noble chateau (3)
- 5. Smith's property in an East Anglian village (5)
- 6. Stick out as a deviant doubter (7)
- 7. Animal shelter one gets past again (4)
- 8. Time and a quarter (6)
- 12. Wine for a fellow accommodating company (5)
- 13. Many have said it's ethical (5)
- 14. Time for a jar with a bird (5)
- 15. Dim as can be, he was touchingly gifted (5)
- 16. Statesman like Lyndon Johnson (5)
- 18. Ready to see the beer doesn't get left (5)
- 19. Upsetting her makes Ian late (7)
- 21. For comparison, is maybe over a mile (6)
- 22. Show off in a street of shops (6)
- 23. Dope tree fertiliser? (6)
- 25. Being high, it rhymes with 'height' (5)
- 26. It's tough, being deceived outright (4)
- 28. Border of the British Empire? (3)