August 14th 2018 - Evening Standard Cryptic

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August 14th 2018 Answers

Clue	Solution
Possibly put on in a London park	UPTON
Passes over sporting leaders, in short	SKIPS
A few words or couple of letters making a point, cleverly	CAPTION
Girl's name for a French city	NANCY
Change from green to red, maybe	RIPEN
Come out with a burst of speed	SPURT
Loud noises from puffers	BELLOWS
Sibilant little sibling	SIS
Prepare less than expeditely	EDIT
Tease a companion for a sign of restlessness	TWITCH
Where frogs' legs may be eaten in pairs	PARIS
Faith in direct action	CREDIT
In business, one is not soft	FIRM
Is he half cut?	HAL
Wherein rushing water cuts round a bend?	SLUICES
Crept out of hotels without finishing lunch	STOLE
Irrational devotion to a mere craze	MANIA
Judged to interfere with trade	RATED
One advising a priest, perhaps, on central heating	TIPSTER
Flat enterable from front or rear	LEVEL
Aliens from the ends of the earth	POLES
Covered with extremes of peril on the wrong date	PLATED
Mysterious officer heading a sect	OCCULT
No it's less than ten a year	NAY
Walks up and down?	STEPS
Thus growl, love, at points of sadness	SORROWS
Use needles to a possibly comforting end	KNIT
Sort of licence one needs to write verse?	POETIC
No such thing as a piece of cake!	SWEAT
A place to comb when stranded?	BEACH
Wrong use of words	LIBEL
Drunken sot, I see, showing little emotion	STOIC
Amid hisses, a bad actor simulates	SHAMS
A name one may fight for	TITLE
Beastly end for a man to have?	PIGTAIL
Have a grave effect upon	RAVAGE
Character playing a big part in a gambling game	FIGARO
In Congreve, readers, you'll find a hero named Paul	REVERE
Cut a corner in a window frame	SLASH
Locate with sound sense	SITE
Bit of a square peg, this salesman?	REP

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