February 16th 2018 - Evening Standard Cryptic

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February 16th 2018 Answers

Clue	Solution
Packed theirs in the one that’s going up	ONTHERISE
A box with a purplish red cover: metal	PLATINUM
Once I got time for leave	EXIT
Go out with a bang	STRIKE
The Indian salesman’s taken back the plant	CREEPER
Wrongly give the Latin translation in it as “watchman”	VIGILANTE
Due to the clamp, being, indeed, unhappy	DEPRESSED
Book you save for a rainy day	RESERVE
Take the ring-road in: a new decree	ORDAIN
Spend a lot on powder?	BLUE
Find it difficult, though you are in employment	HAVEAJOB
Being there, with the said offerings	PRESENCE
Spy something the make-up is trying to conceal?	MOLE
Give an indication that you hear	ASSIGN
Arrive roughly about lunchtime at the holiday destination	RIVIERA
When, without doubt, you’ll discover	ASCERTAIN
Be given an opportunity to become as acerbic as	GETASTART
Believe you’ll get the bird	SWALLOW
In dire trouble, about to see the boss	EDITOR
About fifty, overweight and dull	FLAT
Leave, terribly angry about being exposed	REVEALED
What the building worker did when drunk?	PLASTERED
Besides, it’s further across	MOREOVER
On the way, call for the pearls	STRING
Tip a cent? That’s ridiculous. It’s very little money	PITTANCE
Next day the bee is buzzing about	BESIDE
Added a couple of pages, which finished it	APPENDED
What the greedy sellers imagine they’ll get?	FANCYPRICE
Even changing the cover round brightened things up	LIVENED
A strange tailless cat making a row	RUMPUS
Did she get the bird when performing first?	BRIDGET
The less petite redhead taking the beer round	LARGER
Evade the issue of accommodation for the animal	STALL
Alternatively, black ball	ORB
Strange clue about the right to have money	LUCRE
Goes for the lettuce?	LEAVES
Fair, also, which is to the good	JUSTASWELL
Pop back to fix	PIN
I myself hold the ticket, so it’s a deadlock	IMPASSE
Had got in and somehow undone, is the insinuation	INNUENDO
It’s sensible to have the animal, a lion, tied up	RATIONAL
It will show just how big a rise you’ve had	ALTITUDE
Went through the exercises, bored	DRILLED
Very much afraid the cavern will collapse	CRAVEN
A case, we’re told, of flu	GRIPPE
Charm is man-bait	ALLURE

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