Cryptic Crossword
The Evening Standard's Cryptic Crossword 5 August 2020 Answers
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1 C
A
S
2 T
O
3 R
4 E
5 P
6 U
A
E
7 O
C
C
A
S
I
O
N
R
8 H
A
9 H
A
T
X
W
10 R
E
A
S
O
N
11 F
A
12 C
I
13 L
E
O
14 L
E
T
15 F
16 B
R
E
E
D
17 T
18 E
L
L
19 T
A
20 L
L
Y
A
A
21 R
O
G
U
E
V
R
22 T
I
M
I
D
23 S
24 P
E
25 D
26 S
T
27 R
I
P
N
28 B
E
A
O
29 T
H
U
M
P
S
30 J
O
V
I
A
L
E
M
I
31 A
B
E
L
L
32 R
E
M
I
N
D
E
D
R
A
N
Y
G
33 E
X
E
T
E
R
Across
- 1. Twin actors, possibly? (6)
- 7. The time cocoa’s in preparation (8)
- 8. What a funny fence! (2-2)
- 10. One sees it as good sense (6)
- 11. It’s easy to file an account! (6)
- 14. In simple terms, leased (3)
- 16. Produce beer, perhaps, for the trading centre (5)
- 17. Identify as grass? (4)
- 19. The all-in total (5)
- 21. Guilty person’s regret about an own goal (5)
- 22. A name I had for being bashful (5)
- 23. Speed past (4)
- 26. Piece angrily torn off (5)
- 28. Abe’s little girl? (3)
- 29. With heavy blows, a politician may be shut out (6)
- 30. Genial little trio (6)
- 31. Nominally a unit (4)
- 32. Made to realise there are wild deer around to take care of (8)
- 33. City where there’s no longer a tree to be found? (6)
Down
- 1. It tastes better than a stick (6)
- 2. A steel product with prickles (6)
- 3. The horse galloped out of the ring (4)
- 4. Of consuming interest (7)
- 5. Figure there’s food around for a fairy (5)
- 6. Like every single person (5)
- 8. A building of marked value? (4)
- 9. Steamy piece of photography? (3)
- 12. Weep when there are chips out of the crockery (3)
- 13. Go the French way? (5)
- 15. A bad character (5)
- 18. This heart-breaking world (5)
- 19. Cruise to Mauritius to start? (3)
- 20. Lord of the courts (3)
- 21. After such a good time, are repairs necessary? (7)
- 22. The chap who gave Smith new heart (3)
- 23. More exacting than ever (6)
- 24. A lip split by a bucket (4)
- 25. Evidently there’s cash in road-building (6)
- 26. Back rents collected (5)
- 27. Associated with gin, it’s mostly rum (5)
- 28. A short cut (3)
- 30. Old overworked horse? Yes, half dead (4)