Evening Standard Cryptic Crossword Puzzle Solutions – Mar 8 2018
| Clues | Answers |
| A climber, being a sort of nut | BETEL |
| A female to subdue? | COW |
| A mug’s drink, largely? | PINT |
| A singular thing to ride | UNICYCLE |
| Abstract, in a sense | PRECIS |
| At the end of August, the house is overheated | HOT |
| Bring to bear on a former royal titular head | EXERT |
| Can you get shot for writing one? | ESSAY |
| Cough, and pass me up a letter | HEM |
| Darted around doing business? | TRADED |
| Figure to draw a plant | VETCH |
| Flocks said to be seen in gardens | PHLOX |
| For something to eat, see the next page | TURNOVER |
| Get a loan from George | BORROW |
| Good food and drink will always buck you up | CHEER |
| Gregory’s own self | EGO |
| In America, generally, it’s barred | CAGE |
| In port, perhaps, an American writer | PROUST |
| Is she the wrong side of forty? | HETTY |
| It has a repetitive cry | PARROT |
| It’s not this that’s so emphatic! | HALF |
| Just one is not very electrifying | VOLT |
| Like the prophesies of Mother Shipton | HERS |
| Lived in Iowa somewhere | WAS |
| Managed to get two points out of nothing! | WON |
| Name just one vehicle | IVAN |
| Of Irish butter? | PAT |
| One immersed in the part of ‘Sir Bedivere’? | DIVER |
| Provide what’s lacking when the referee gets sick | REFILL |
| Quick to adjust a veil | ALIVE |
| Some of the sloppiest food? | PIES |
| Something to do with gum | CHEW |
| Something you require when heartlessly nettled | NEED |
| Spiteful woman perhaps said to be after Bob | CAT |
| Take in interpretive view | READ |
| Tempestuous tale about James Bond’s boss | STORMY |
| The indigenous people’s reduced alternatives | NATIVE |
| The kiddies may think him a knockout! | PUNCH |
| The place for a dog? | SPOT |
| Tiny fragments of piano pieces | PARTICLES |
| To dad, the old tax system | PAYE |
| Turn up with a growl, yet seem pleased | PURR |
| You can expect one to change colour often | DYER |
| You’ve never seen this king with a tattered robe on | OBERON |
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