Cryptic Crossword
The Evening Standard's Cryptic Crossword 21 December 2022 Answers
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1 P
E
R
2 S
I
3 A
4 S
5 P
6 U
O
T
7 C
H
A
P
L
A
I
N
I
8 M
O
9 S
T
E
R
F
10 S
L
O
P
E
S
11 S
A
12 L
A
13 M
I
E
14 S
I
T
15 V
16 R
E
S
E
T
17 D
18 U
S
T
19 M
A
20 N
E
T
T
N
21 H
O
L
E
D
R
I
22 H
O
P
I
T
23 C
24 O
O
25 L
26 S
T
27 R
I
P
D
28 P
A
P
U
29 H
E
A
T
E
D
30 T
A
P
P
E
D
A
N
F
31 A
L
T
O
L
32 C
A
C
T
U
S
E
S
O
O
K
H
L
33 H
A
R
R
O
W
Across
- 1. Wild praise for the old country (6)
- 7. The Forces clergyman had been lying (8)
- 8. The majority are stray toms (4)
- 10. Whereon the first or last of the skiers moves easily (6)
- 11. Sausages shared by Sarah and a friend (6)
- 14. Rest in position (3)
- 16. Again fixed the engineers' radio (5)
- 17. Do a cleaning job for gold, perhaps (4)
- 19. Meant to become a painter (5)
- 21. Hold out a key that's damaged (5)
- 22. Leave to get work in a successful show (3,2)
- 23. Self-possessed, albeit out of control (4)
- 26. Comic feature that's a take-off? (5)
- 28. Food for dad and the coppers (3)
- 29. Angry when the chap broke a date (6)
- 30. Struck by the way Morse was sent out? (6)
- 31. A voice of phenomenal tone (4)
- 32. Growing reasons for settling out of court? (8)
- 33. Where pupils are taught how to get out of a Rolls? (6)
Down
- 1. I posed suitably in balance (6)
- 2. Words used in making an arrest (4,2)
- 3. In plays, the cast can vary (4)
- 4. A listener rushed out, transfixed! (7)
- 5. Standard Anglo-Saxon soldiers? (5)
- 6. Not able to remove an attachment? (5)
- 8. There's nothing in manuscripts of botanical interest (4)
- 9. A determined group of people (3)
- 12. Enable to show a bit of subtlety (3)
- 13. European underground line that gets me to Rome (5)
- 15. Virginia takes cover - as is logical (5)
- 18. Join in less than a minute, maybe (5)
- 19. Do a shock clean-up job? (3)
- 20. Can such a profit be fishy? (3)
- 21. Optimistic about a flight on the wrong fuel (7)
- 22. Make hard contact with the thing in question (3)
- 23. An officer or one who has taken a prisoner (6)
- 24. The pal in –palindrome”? (4)
- 25. Shropshire town with an old part renewed (6)
- 26. Primitive accommodation for hacks? (5)
- 27. Whence the hands managed to get to church? (5)
- 28. Outwardly paternal associate? (3)
- 30. New hats as worn by men (4)