February 24th 2017 - Evening Standard Cryptic

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February 24th 2017 Answers

Clue	Solution
First in, I turned tail	INITIAL
Abstain from taking, as you make your exit	GOWITHOUT
Not absent from any whatsoever	ATALL
An addict, if reformed, will stop	FIEND
Then somehow mean to capture the wild animal	PANTHER
What the French call a “film noir”?	TARNISH
Said to look hard at what’s under the carpet?	STAIR
Fruit drink with a pip in it I removed	APPLE
Fly round at first, unsettled	OWING
Smart attempt to get a goal in	TRENDY
Laughed when one gave a warning	HOOTED
Is now out to get me? Charming!	WINSOME
Having swindled, did wrong in having run away	FIDDLED
Has gone off, you know, very perturbed	SHAKEN
Cooked one - disgusting - and that’s ample	ENOUGH
Is very fond of, just the same, and prepared to return to	DOTES
Now the chaps are coming in to change	AMEND
Getting the key and opening is an occasion	EVENT
Having entered the contest, with trouble lying ahead!	INFORIT
Bound to admit everything matched up	TALLIED
Object to: “Skinny, with a long tail”	THING
The crest, or part on the head of the bird	RIDGE
Idea you jot when thinking of a white horse?	BRAINWAVE
The insect on the burning bush?	FIREFLY
Not just cloudy?	UNFAIR
Smart, is concealing everything and playing for time	STALLING
As often as not, when in jail?	HALFTHETIME
The crew members in the storage compartment are lovey-dovey	HOLDHANDS
They haven’t been awakened for breakfast	KIPPERS
Speak your mind?	THINKALOUD
Squashy food huskies go for	MUSH
Show what’s often a blue picture	TATTOO
He’s out in front but unable to run freely	LEASHED
It’s the very devil when rain seeps in, chum!	FRIEND
Prepared to take time to get one in the clear	PATIENT
Copy it in a mite shakily	IMITATE
Aggressively healthy?	FIGHTINGFIT
By stepping on it, you may break it!	SPEEDLIMIT
In money, I have a spur	INCENTIVE
Shorten to: “A mutt to the last”	CURTAIL
Strains to find cheap accommodation	SHANTY
Fed up, had done the wrong thing and put it off	DEFERRED
A dolly on a chair?	SITTER
Lengthen the skirt that’s proved to be a disappointment	LETDOWN
Shoot a lot of bullets into the screen	RIDDLE
Clown with a lovely singing voice	LARK

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