May 31st 2018 - Evening Standard Cryptic

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May 31st 2018 Answers

Clue	Solution
A force for good	POLICE
Battle station	WATERLOO
Slow starting runner, but a cheerful one	SMILER
Jumps around with much pleasure	LEAPS
How one's ears can burn!	SEAR
Nominally a bit of a setback for ASLEF	ELSA
Country dance hall	BARN
Pointed end of a lancet, I presume	TIP
Stray sheep going round the ring	ROAM
You won't find this in the North Atlantic!	THAT
Old-fashioned fellows	VICTORIAN
In more ways than one, I'm clued up	WISE
One garment, of which five make a set	VEST
Traffic problem promised for tomorrow?	JAM
It's taken to be exemplary	LEAD
Cleaner drink?	CHAR
A pronounced bore, but providing a round in the bar	BOAR
Has no translation in an African language	SHONA
The benefits of managing to be first round the bend?	FRUITS
It emerges as a key assignment	EMISSION
American in the nude, perhaps, getting fresh	UNUSED
River of Wales?	SWALE
It's bound to be cartographic	ATLAS
She opens up when the lights are low	IRIS
Problem confronting the artist?	POSER
Retreat by rail, possibly?	LAIR
Cried movingly at the perfect ending, we believe	CREDIT
Apparently a prayer to make a man sit up!	MANTIS
Timber used in wheel making	ELM
A centre for continental capitalists	PARIS
Need it contain Russian tea?	SAMOVAR
Flier with a hang-up?	BAT
Brown ant maybe	TAN
Being catty, is spotted in a nice fur coat	OCELOT
Going to church, headgear provides a certain cover	HATCH
Enough energy for six million?	VIM
In dire disappointment, visibly angry	RED
Bird possessing a warm heart in a London street	WARREN
Managed to appear in opera nightly	RAN
Less than pleased when relieved	EASED
Jump over the thing and buzz off	HOPIT
The weather not to be out, with little sunshine around	RAINY
It's after the job's finished that there are offcuts	BITS
Shopping for a kimono, you may see one in the window	SASH

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