Evening Standard Cryptic – Mar 13 2018
Published in Evening Standard Cryptic Crossword. Tags: Africa, METRE, PINTA, PLUSH.
Evening Standard Cryptic Crossword Puzzle Solutions – Mar 13 2018
Clues | Answers |
A somewhat shocking drink? | JAR |
All night refreshment ? | SLEEP |
Always ate out when it was hot | FEVERED |
Annoyed when infested with rodents? | RATTY |
Believes one is in touch? | FEELS |
Bit of jargon used on the third of October | ARGOT |
Bright boy | RAY |
Buildings requiring a hundred new slates | CASTLES |
Couldn’t you listen to him for a fiver? | TENOR |
Derby, perhaps? | HAT |
Fish eater digesting plaice at mid-morning | PELICAN |
Follow the transcript of the trial | TRAIL |
Gardener’s means of dislodging a worm out of the earth? | MOWER |
He has some more in his own room, the devil! | DEMON |
Horse with a saintly head | STEED |
Hundreds of scent manufacturers | CENTS |
In being on loan, half the team have a moan | LAMENT |
Instrument used in early recordings | LYRE |
Leander had her love | HERO |
Measure just about half of it | METRE |
More than a cuppa! | PINTA |
Notably lacking sharpness or flatness | NATURAL |
Old Bill’s traditional name, formally | ROBERT |
Only embraces gym work, frankly | OPENLY |
Run out and look around for a tin opener | PETER |
She turns up in Northallerton | ELLA |
Shout very audibly at Tony? | BLARE |
Show dissatisfaction with a bad poem | MOPE |
Smoky city? | HAVANA |
Softer than velvet? That’s rich! | PLUSH |
Supplied from the safe deposit | FED |
That homely forename | JAMES |
The less bright learner is in worse disarray | SLOWER |
They afflict people much more than ague | PLAGUES |
They’re apt to have their variations | THEMES |
To end the fight for a cause in criminal! | TREASON |
To live with a goddess will only be bewildering! | BEMUSE |
Too much juice will melt them | FUSES |
Toothy girl? | PEGGY |
Undertake to get into gear? | ENGAGE |
Units deployed in N. Africa | TUNIS |