Cryptic Crossword
The Evening Standard's Cryptic Crossword 21 June 2023 Answers
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1 A
2 S
3 B
4 T
R
5 A
M
6 P
S
7 M
A
C
A
R
O
N
I
G
R
A
U
A
8 A
9 C
E
T
I
C
10 S
11 A
L
12 A
D
13 B
R
E
D
N
14 S
I
L
L
15 C
O
A
L
16 A
C
T
D
17 I
18 V
O
R
19 L
20 U
R
E
21 O
V
E
R
S
22 T
A
T
E
23 T
I
E
S
24 T
A
R
T
25 M
26 P
A
L
27 T
28 R
A
P
29 E
30 D
A
31 M
L
32 H
A
I
L
33 B
R
A
C
E
34 B
E
H
E
L
D
E
U
D
N
R
35 G
A
R
D
E
N
I
A
36 S
T
A
B
L
E
S
T
L
Across
- 4. Walks or takes public transport around Clapham central (6)
- 7. Tubes of paste (8)
- 8. Such acid makes an expert twitch! (6)
- 10. A dish alas spoilt by hundreds (5)
- 13. Produced sound bread (4)
- 14. Endlessly stupid place for a window box? (4)
- 15. Source of tar or possibly some alcohol (4)
- 16. Work in a factory (3)
- 17. Divorce would be too much for him (4)
- 19. The attraction of a new rule (4)
- 21. Speak too strongly because of bad taste? (9)
- 23. Some of the prettiest things to wear (4)
- 24. Can be bitten, though cutting is appropriate (4)
- 26. The friend father left (3)
- 27. Lure tenor with type of music (4)
- 29. Dizzy dame in a red coat (4)
- 32. What 'raining hard' could imaginably mean? (4)
- 33. A stiffener or two (5)
- 34. Seen to be in hand (6)
- 35. Plant providing the horticultural place with an excellent return (8)
- 36. One employing the ablest people? (6)
Down
- 1. Collect a choral work (5)
- 2. Oar said to belong to jolly Roger (5)
- 3. The young Mr Pitt (4)
- 4. It's up to an academician to provide something topping! (5)
- 5. Though elderly, managed without a husband (4)
- 6. He gets what the shop charges when about to close down (6)
- 9. A low place with a good stock of wine (6)
- 11. It can help if you turn up the radiator a bit (3)
- 12. Alert to one evil possibility (5)
- 13. A starting place for correction treatment (7)
- 15. Crikey, a French horn! (3)
- 16. It's a measure of land, dearest heart! (3)
- 18. Could such virgins use valets? (6)
- 20. Articulate, say (5)
- 21. Ring the film centre for hair-dressing (3)
- 22. It's apt to be turned on (3)
- 23. What you need to write a story for the theatre (6)
- 25. Would a tartan lining suit it? (3)
- 28. Ride around the Hog's Back, it being high ground (5)
- 30. Put off a letter to a relative (5)
- 31. A putty one isn't exactly metal! (5)
- 32. Mother Brown's little boy? (4)
- 33. Restful little county (4)