Cryptic Crossword
The Evening Standard's Cryptic Crossword 4 January 2024 Answers
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1 H
2 B
3 G
4 L
E
5 A
6 M
7 S
8 D
E
9 B
A
R
I
10 P
O
L
L
Y
11 R
U
T
12 L
O
C
A
L
E
13 P
O
S
T
14 M
A
N
15 C
A
16 M
E
17 L
N
18 L
O
W
19 S
H
R
I
K
E
20 T
21 W
E
B
S
I
T
E
D
E
22 W
A
R
S
U
E
23 B
A
N
D
I
E
24 C
I
N
E
25 M
A
S
S
26 C
27 A
N
28 N
O
T
29 P
A
Y
30 B
31 E
S
S
A
Y
32 E
L
B
O
33 W
E
D
H
34 T
O
K
A
Y
35 N
O
T
36 G
E
T
A
T
S
37 N
E
W
S
Y
N
38 L
E
I
T
H
T
Y
Across
- 3. Make light of a broken leg one morning (5)
- 8. Forbid a socialite to have a hard heart (5)
- 10. She left a devious ploy out (5)
- 11. In truth, it's a mundane line (3)
- 12. The handyman's pub? (5)
- 13. Hardly a job for a mere boy (7)
- 15. Turned up with the cash for an animal (5)
- 18. Such humour befits a bit of a clown (3)
- 19. Bird disturbed by hikers (6)
- 21. World wide source of information (7)
- 22. Those starred in a movie? (4)
- 23. Players, presumably all-rounders (4)
- 24. Locations for projected entertainments (7)
- 26. Isn't able to put a girl to bed (6)
- 29. Last of the money given to father? (3)
- 31. Something written for this paper, for instance? (5)
- 32. Given a jolt jointly (7)
- 34. To name a wine (5)
- 35. No troop leader is negative (3)
- 36. Reach the broken gate at the end of the street (3,2)
- 37. Topical bulletin barely finished (5)
- 38. Where the Scots can exercise to get lithe (5)
Down
- 1. Outwardly female bird (5)
- 2. Struggles with mysterious tablets (7)
- 4. Leo, 51, gets no return (4)
- 5. An American in Paris? (6)
- 6. A big thing in dentistry (5)
- 7. Though well-fed, perhaps, keels over! (5)
- 9. One caught in an ambush? (3)
- 12. Attire for action? (7)
- 14. Gangsters' mode of operation when the bank opens (3)
- 16. He was fabulously touchy about gold (5)
- 17. Soundly leads a united team (5)
- 19. How an aircraft may rise, barely avoiding a spire? (7)
- 20. Once again! (5)
- 21. Navy blue birds? (5)
- 23. One fixedly attached to a firearm (7)
- 24. It's wild, but only half shy (6)
- 25. Mother, note, is a queen (3)
- 27. How pale Shane turns! (5)
- 28. Upbringing of some charlatans in South Africa (5)
- 30. Elizabeth, it seems, gambles her very last penny! (5)
- 32. Second piece of news, in a way? (4)
- 33. Success, yes, but the dog takes no bow! (3)