Cryptic Crossword
The Evening Standard's Cryptic Crossword 20 December 2023 Answers
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1 C
2 A
3 L
4 A
R
5 M
O
6 U
R
7 H
A
N
D
I
C
A
P
A
N
A
T
F
8 R
9 E
L
I
S
H
10 F
11 R
O
12 M
E
13 R
O
L
L
A
14 F
I
N
E
15 N
I
N
E
16 A
I
M
M
17 T
18 R
I
P
19 V
20 E
L
D
21 W
H
O
L
E
22 M
E
A
L
23 P
A
S
S
24 N
U
N
S
25 B
26 P
A
Y
27 T
28 H
E
M
29 E
30 R
A
31 S
I
32 M
E
A
D
33 G
L
O
A
T
34 A
D
D
E
R
S
O
B
U
U
A
35 T
I
M
E
B
O
M
B
36 S
P
O
N
G
E
S
T
S
Across
- 4. It protects one's right to be in love (6)
- 7. Race difficulty? (8)
- 8. Enjoy something tasteful (6)
- 10. Leaving England's capital for somewhere in Somerset (5)
- 13. Go along for something to eat (4)
- 14. Lovely and thin (4)
- 15. A number of elms (4)
- 16. Mean to go first-class to Maidenhead (3)
- 17. Fall excursion (4)
- 19. Grassy area with some gravel deposits (4)
- 21. Is such bread a repast in itself? (9)
- 23. It'll do to get you by (4)
- 24. Women who help to make men unselfish (4)
- 26. It has its day of enrichment! (3)
- 27. Those in the money? (4)
- 29. Old times usually great (4)
- 32. Angry about finishing late, you need a drink (4)
- 33. Having left Billy out, be smugly exultant (5)
- 34. Vipers can make one sadder (6)
- 35. It'll go up after a while (4,4)
- 36. To be a cadger is an absorbing thing (6)
Down
- 1. Husky humour? (5)
- 2. It's a name, but if heartless he'd be nameless! (5)
- 3. Term of usefulness of a file? (4)
- 4. For protection, cover a piano right over! (5)
- 5. Where mum needs £50 to go shopping? (4)
- 6. Not mentioned (being unspeakable?) (6)
- 9. One plus one is less than a dozen (6)
- 11. It borders on being a centre for crime (3)
- 12. A fluid, but methinks not writing fluid (5)
- 13. Developed the pier end, possibly (7)
- 15. It can mean a clean sheet, love (3)
- 16. In political life, it means everything (3)
- 18. List giving a new store a rousing start (6)
- 20. One supportive of an artist's views? (5)
- 21. Route for shipping movement (3)
- 22. Does dad keep quiet about her? (3)
- 23. Are such members given more salary? (4,2)
- 25. Sheepish letter to a bachelor (3)
- 28. Something to make fast (5)
- 30. Root out a bighead, being inhuman (5)
- 31. Remnants of a wrecked bus on the street (5)
- 32. Being niggardly makes me a bit angry (4)
- 33. Tries to go two ways (4)