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December 27th 2017 Answers

Clue	Solution
If you can hear it you don't read it	REPORT
Arrest by a blonde WPC?	AFAIRCOP
Jump and turn pale	LEAP
Ridings in old Yorkshire?	THIRDS
An excessive desire, that's understood	AGREED
Agreement number 500	NOD
Wherein residents can get old at some stage	LODGE
Gas extractable from methane only	NEON
A persuasive talker	MONEY
Cool-headed individuals in traffic control	CONES
Sweet nonsense	FUDGE
They're tame, but step back anyway	PETS
Cut off from central Ruislip at all times	SEVER
Passed as symmetrical	DID
Quickly disperse the poor outside the theatre	PRONTO
Ministry, at present, of fish?	MINNOW
Some American name for a girl	ANNA
Of stolen radio equipment?	RECEIVER
Time to show resilience	SPRING
When decayed, hopeless to rent	ROTTEN
Honour a little man as king!	OBERON
May well be bent over the sink	TAPS
Picks out individual matches	SINGLES
Performed as a stand-in	ACTED
In fiction, Sam has a cushy place in the southeast	SPADE
Wild lion lying on the floor	LINO
Put on some headdress	ADD
He would hold a man to be a gypsy	ROY
A flier to greet anew	EGRET
Prisoner having to leave by river	CONGO
A downy bird	EIDER
Up-to-date ministry	MOD
Given a start in life, as in France	NEE
Cut short a meandering trail?	CURTAIL
Marshy area in the south of England	FEN
By going round the pub, one gets somewhere near Harrow	PINNER
Girl from Aden?	EDNA
Sing about hearty clowns, e.g. when broadcasting	SOWING
It's fun, cobber	SPORT
Love in sin, say	VOICE
Lack of silence in the reading room	DIN
In grammar schools, it's astronomical!	MARS

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