February 23rd 2018 - Evening Standard Cryptic

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February 23rd 2018 Answers

Clue	Solution
Extend leave	PULLOUT
The previous warning was given prior to leaving	FOREGOING
The passage I’ll read aloud	AISLE
Telling a story to in bed?	LYING
Say yes, the son’s rolling in money	CONSENT
Hold, as you grapple with	CONTEND
Man whose lemonade you’ll put the whisky in?	SPIKE
The catalogue’s in the dining-room	TABLE
The plant is left out unwrapped to get the sun	LOTUS
Though angry about, backed, too, and cheered on	ROOTED
Providing transport sounds generous	HANSOM
Claim to have put in the cupboard of	PROFESS
Search for and find the guard	LOOKOUT
Is put off by the figure, which is silly	STUPID
As always, about to protect: think the world of	REVERE
The stage is set for the entrances	GATES
With a big arm, hugging again	GREAT
Spy on a man	AGENT
Number eighteen is well known	NOTABLE
Continued to put money into the plant	RESUMED
Dealing with roughly	ABOUT
From a hundred, point fifty are outstandingly good	EXCEL
Stopping from striking	ARRESTING
The best ship around? They really are funny!	SCREAMS
Fakes, one assumes	PUTSON
Stupid Sherlock Holmes never was	CLUELESS
It should ensure delivery of the whole speech	FULLADDRESS
Impression of how it feels to be at sea in a storm?	ROUGHIDEA
Fruit dishes	PEACHES
Talking right through the film!	SOUNDTRACK
One held the string, in the old days	ONCE
A lot to prepare for posting	PARCEL
Calling the embassy	MISSION
To cook, traps rain water	STREAM
A cub - it is playing with a fawn	BISCUIT
It’s agony for the poor tutor again	TORTURE
Suffer disaster, as do envelopes that open in transit	COMEUNSTUCK
Don’t pay and don’t provide transport home from the station	FAILTOMEET
No singles at all - none	NEVERAONE
Say to the people turning it on	MENTION
The sweet boy took us back first	SUGARY
Was ruffled, one understood	GATHERED
To the reader, means “indeterminate periods of time”	SPELLS
Order, for the chap, fruit	MANDATE
Look good on you, when you get	BECOME
Inevitable, all right	SURE

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