Cryptic Crossword
The Evening Standard's Cryptic Crossword 9 April 2019 Answers
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1 M
2 A
N
3 I
4 A
5 H
6 A
7 I
S
8 L
E
T
9 G
R
O
U
N
D
S
O
10 C
O
U
N
T
M
11 O
L
I
V
E
N
O
12 P
A
D
R
E
I
13 R
E
14 F
R
A
I
N
I
15 E
N
16 D
17 I
D
L
E
L
18 E
N
R
A
G
E
D
U
19 D
O
I
N
G
S
F
20 G
21 E
T
O
U
T
D
22 S
E
23 V
E
24 E
V
E
F
25 R
O
U
N
D
E
R
I
26 A
F
T
E
R
A
N
27 S
N
O
R
E
A
28 O
P
T
I
C
C
29 C
R
O
P
S
U
P
C
30 M
E
T
H
S
S
31 R
Y
D
E
R
Across
- 1. Wild enthusiasm for a player, a first-class back? (5)
- 6. Passage to a water-girt land (5)
- 9. Justification for a deposit (7)
- 10. Nobleman (a French one in bed?) (5)
- 11. Popeye's favourite fruit (5)
- 12. The sky pilot's home again (5)
- 13. One might forbear to sing it (7)
- 15. Latest thing in trendiness (3)
- 17. Having nothing to do, one gets led astray (4)
- 18. Displease greatly by spoiling a green (6)
- 19. About acting? (5)
- 20. Escape or pull back, having a broken toe (3,3)
- 22. A familiar golfer (4)
- 24. Clever girl? (3)
- 25. Comparatively podgy, or possibly inferior (7)
- 26. Subsequent wild fear about trouble starting (5)
- 27. Vibratory sound right in the nose, maybe (5)
- 28. An eye for a drink? (5)
- 29. Happens to make harvests better (5,2)
- 30. A little liquid, methinks not writing fluid (5)
- 31. A cup wrestled for in Derry? (5)
Down
- 2. Advanced in date, perhaps, as made up (6)
- 3. There's nothing in changing a rule, so take no notice (6)
- 4. To get one right takes skill (3)
- 5. Like people who sing with some bands (5)
- 6. Affectionate as Dora, tipsy on gin maybe (7)
- 7. Across the water, is only half a mile! (4)
- 8. Being ardent, yearn to embrace a girl (6)
- 12. Light in flight? (5)
- 13. Elevated variety of cucumber? (5)
- 14. Glass instrument? (5)
- 15. Helped a seed to burst (5)
- 16. Fed up with hesitation, postpone action (5)
- 18. Finish at the outer extremities of a witch's place (5)
- 19. The fatheads fed furs out! (7)
- 21. Show clearly what's incorporated in woman (6)
- 22. Like a fashionable photo? (6)
- 23. City of wet streets (6)
- 25. Collects what may be spare (5)
- 26. Structure seen in searching (4)
- 28. My royal style, as we might say (3)