Cryptic Crossword
The Evening Standard's Cryptic Crossword 19 December 2024 Answers
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1 A
2 C
T
3 O
4 N
5 U
6 S
7 W
A
8 B
S
U
9 F
O
U
N
D
E
R
U
10 D
R
I
F
T
I
11 V
E
R
S
E
F
D
12 S
T
E
I
N
K
13 T
E
14 N
A
N
C
Y
L
15 H
E
16 M
17 A
W
A
Y
O
18 A
L
L
U
R
E
S
W
19 A
R
G
U
E
R
T
20 T
21 R
A
N
C
E
G
22 S
O
23 R
E
24 Y
O
B
U
25 T
H
I
N
N
E
R
T
26 S
T
O
A
T
I
F
27 M
A
R
I
E
N
28 S
T
O
U
T
T
29 P
L
A
S
T
I
C
S
30 M
E
S
S
Y
Y
31 T
H
R
E
E
Across
- 1. In London, place a hundred on account (5)
- 6. Clean up for the lubbers! (5)
- 9. Go down as the originator (7)
- 10. Tenor and doctor, unusually fit (5)
- 11. The overseer's poetic part (5)
- 12. A stony mug (5)
- 13. The leaseholder's occupation (7)
- 15. A little cough, merely marginal (3)
- 17. Travellers' game (4)
- 18. The charm of a cash incentive (6)
- 19. Discuss the toss? (5)
- 20. Canter around in a dream (6)
- 22. Rose can be very tender (4)
- 24. Bad boy? (3)
- 25. Comparatively slight bit of bother outside the pub (7)
- 26. Is in an ermine coat at times (5)
- 27. She takes me out for fresh air (5)
- 28. Drink a saint unconscious! (5)
- 29. Easily impressed by credit cards, say (7)
- 30. Confused, at some times outwardly shy (5)
- 31. There could be a number (5)
Down
- 2. Timely restriction on a cad having more than a couple! (6)
- 3. Brief absence when one is below par (3,3)
- 4. Nothing in the New Testament is negative (3)
- 5. Opportunity to finish in concert (5)
- 6. Check out some villas in town (7)
- 7. Lawrence's bird (4)
- 8. Entertainer without a roof over his head (6)
- 12. Hit twenty (5)
- 13. Too nice to be tatty, exactly? (5)
- 14. Formerly, in India, a form of 'bwana'? (5)
- 15. Smashing time by northern lake (5)
- 16. It measures a short line, not the whole underground (5)
- 18. Anything that upsets a thug (5)
- 19. Injury leading to a lively second half in keen style (7)
- 21. Go round with a list at half term (6)
- 22. Pinch the nose (6)
- 23. Never accept rubbish (6)
- 25. Resembling the pansy, it has yellow flowers (5)
- 26. Drinks very little (4)
- 28. It's wrong when you take an exam (3)