August 16th 2018 - Evening Standard Cryptic

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August 16th 2018 Answers

Clue	Solution
Looks at books	AUDITS
Foreign confectionery to have a fling with	CONFETTI
A trap's reset in an ancient city	SPARTA
A private name	TOMMY
One can weaken and still wave it	FLAG
It didn't grow at Tyburn	TREE
Coastal feature ripe for redevelopment	PIER
A familiar facsimile	FAX
On the ground, perhaps, too weak to stand up?	THIN
A figure advanced at Bristol, for instance	AVON
Actor playing Bonnie Prince Charlie?	PRETENDER
By which Elsie is no end misled?	LIES
Passes for females	DOES
Fail to survive on an inadequate diet	DIE
To some ladies, an unpleasant creature	TOAD
But a greyhound can get out of it	TRAP
Blue essay about love	TORY
African country with a middle-sized river	ZAIRE
In play, could be termed a city of gentlemen	VERONA
The cat gets a bird - as it flies through the air?	TOMAHAWK
One learning the way in N. Ireland?	TYRONE
Writer of Caledonian tales initially	SCOTT
He's imagined to make men go astray	GNOME
Light? Emphatically!	VERY
Passage to a place like Capri	AISLE
Many a student joke is a bore	DRAG
He gave a perfect ending to a clever piece of painting	TITIAN
Show proudly that dad's exceptionally dear	PARADE
A royal ball	ORB
Over a yard, but just about a quarter of a foot!	METRE
The one Madame Butterfly sang of?	FINEDAY
Mine's in hospital	PIT
In favour of raising the roof, nothing less	FOR
Charlton, in the London area	HESTON
She can be strikingly enlightening	VESTA
Soft, that is, to eat?	PIE
Seem ready to drop off	NOD
Brownish uniform?	LIVERY
Heart to heart listener	EAR
Are to edit and deliver a speech	ORATE
Figure a liar may be out to surpass you!	RIVAL
Not exactly perky, but rather sickly	PEAKY
Common verb that turns up in Herodotus	TODO
Laze around with gusto!	ZEAL

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