Cryptic Crossword
The Evening Standard's Cryptic Crossword 21 March 2024 Answers
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1 C
2 U
R
3 B
4 S
5 M
6 S
7 P
A
8 S
M
N
9 R
U
N
O
V
E
R
A
10 A
S
W
A
N
C
11 N
A
A
F
I
E
N
12 C
H
E
A
M
A
13 M
A
14 S
C
A
R
A
T
15 A
R
16 C
17 I
T
C
H
E
18 F
O
S
S
I
L
N
O
19 A
C
T
O
R
P
A
20 G
21 R
U
B
B
Y
L
22 L
I
23 P
S
24 Y
E
T
S
25 S
L
U
I
C
E
S
V
26 B
O
O
T
Y
V
O
27 P
E
A
R
L
R
28 T
E
M
P
O
A
29 A
V
I
A
T
O
R
L
30 E
L
I
T
E
P
31 T
Y
P
E
S
Across
- 1. Restrains, checks, or cool-headedly rubs the wrong way (5)
- 6. Twitch quietly during mass, possibly (5)
- 9. Changed ends every six balls (by accident?) (3,4)
- 10. A large waterfowl on the Nile (5)
- 11. Initially a canteen or shop providing services (5)
- 12. He's in the river somewhere near Sutton (5)
- 13. Possible cause of a bit of a black eye? (7)
- 15. One line of a popular chorus (3)
- 17. Want to keep Kenneth out of the kitchen (4)
- 18. If loss can occur, is stony (6)
- 19. Player of current high prominence (5)
- 20. Needing a wash, being a messy eater? (6)
- 22. As sealed in silence? (4)
- 24. Still in the money, etc. (3)
- 25. Wet gates (7)
- 26. Plunder to get a kick out of? (5)
- 27. Can she handle a revolver? (5)
- 28. Playing speed (5)
- 29. Flighty fellow? (7)
- 30. Cream of the Carmelites (5)
- 31. The sort to open shops of various kinds (5)
Down
- 2. Remove from a government position at the UN? (6)
- 3. Subdivision of a stock farm at Wembley Central (6)
- 4. It's nice and warm in dress uniform (3)
- 5. Coffee can make you macho! (5)
- 6. Nat rose to become an important man (7)
- 7. The little woman has the right to push one around! (4)
- 8. A fair's arranged for the pleasure of certain travellers (6)
- 12. Place in secrecy (5)
- 13. Mean to distil my gin (5)
- 14. Old rover who can still venture (5)
- 15. A snake, I see, can be something to savour (5)
- 16. The high quality of many a mug (5)
- 18. A foolish construction (5)
- 19. A seaman possibly loves to forgive (7)
- 21. Show a priest the potentially gin-free side of Ealing (6)
- 22. Brownish attire? (6)
- 23. Nation said to peep at the French (6)
- 25. Something to hang on to, keeping watch? (5)
- 26. Big-headed pest unloved as a child (4)
- 28. One barely old enough to add up? (3)