Cryptic Crossword
The Evening Standard's Cryptic Crossword 27 July 2021 Answers
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1 S
2 W
A
3 B
4 S
5 B
6 S
7 T
I
8 C
K
I
9 R
O
M
A
N
C
E
E
10 A
R
G
O
T
R
11 R
A
L
L
Y
I
K
12 V
E
N
U
S
T
13 A
N
14 G
E
R
E
D
F
15 L
I
16 P
17 I
G
O
R
T
18 A
F
R
I
C
A
T
T
19 S
C
A
R
Y
N
R
20 C
21 H
U
R
C
H
I
22 O
G
23 R
E
24 H
I
P
A
25 S
E
A
F
O
O
D
T
26 P
L
O
T
S
F
T
27 S
T
O
O
P
E
28 S
K
O
A
L
E
29 L
E
G
A
T
E
E
T
30 F
R
I
L
L
M
31 T
Y
R
E
S
Across
- 1. Lubbers helping with the cleaning (5)
- 6. Bear corporal punishment (5)
- 9. A composition from Cremona (7)
- 10. Go in for what may be graphic language (5)
- 11. Romeo joins a friend at the gathering (5)
- 12. She can bring us a bit of heaven (5)
- 13. Much displeased by one form of greed (7)
- 15. A number quietly on edge (3)
- 17. That somewhat rigorous Russian! (4)
- 18. A movie was made out of it (6)
- 19. Unsafe transport in the outskirts of Surrey (5)
- 20. Good place to spend half an hour amid companions (6)
- 22. A brutal character, therefore backward (4)
- 24. Part of a ship sometimes replaced (3)
- 25. Variant of a dose that can taste salty (7)
- 26. Plans to make millions out of sterling! (5)
- 27. Condescend to keep out of the job-centre (5)
- 28. Australia's koalas have good health! (5)
- 29. Everything may be left to him (7)
- 30. Something pretty exciting to the cockney, we hear (5)
- 31. Spares among the off-duty reserves? (5)
Down
- 2. Sending the circuitry (6)
- 3. Dealer good enough to take out his heartless brother (6)
- 4. Is it so tip-top to be a boozer? (3)
- 5. Revealed by the barman? (5)
- 6. Untidy about the neck? (7)
- 7. Take a seat for light refreshments (4)
- 8. That side of Glasgow with its own language? (6)
- 12. Figure to draw a plant (5)
- 13. Would it's last letter alone suffice? (5)
- 14. Rose and dressed (3,2)
- 15. Talk is no good in oil production! (5)
- 16. Dad's visibly angry when trimmed! (5)
- 18. Sign of fresh air to the east and south (5)
- 19. In the theatre, it's incisive (7)
- 21. He strikes one as a forcing bat (6)
- 22. A high note, discordant (3,3)
- 23. To tear madly round and round! (6)
- 25. Old-fashioned engine driver (5)
- 26. The statistician's daughter? (4)
- 28. One of those court matchmakers (3)