December 31st 2018 - Evening Standard Cryptic

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December 31st 2018 Answers

Clue	Solution
Nominally she can only just beat dad	PIPPA
Greyfriars boy?	BOBBY
Trophy worth some cash, essentially?	ASHES
Much talk of getting asleep	GAS
Writers making a fortune around Mile End	POETS
It's a matter of keeping cool even when disheartened	CONTROL
Tough, hot-headed, possibly mean fellow	HEMAN
The mien of a broadcaster?	AIR
Murphy gets to a top relocation	POTATO
Is their behaviour revolting?	RIOTERS
Little Tony's school	ETON
Colourful standard of goodness	GOLD
One out of eight?	OARSMAN
Perform a lovely piece solo	SINGLY
Just the chap to play it again?	SAM
It means more to a dead-wrong dunderhead	ADDED
The toff suffered when prevented from winning	NOBBLED
After the year's end, a pine can mature	RIPEN
In a race, can it get you nowhere?	LAP
Causes some heat by writing on fighting	WARMS
Originally, points for successfully finishing	NEWLY
Do big ones possess more fire-power?	SHOTS
Turn and leave one learning to be a writer	GOGOL
Refrain from giving a seaman a bad mark	ABSTAIN
Figure one gets half a dollar	IDOL
Pitiable quality	PATHOS
The advantage of turning up with a girl	ASSET
Manage to reach a degree of vegetation	GETAT
Prohibit bank robbery!	BAN
Picture maybe in ropy art	PORTRAY
Little city in the central Loire, maybe	RIO
Man of stone?	MASON
Movingly agreeable looking children's character	NODDY
Avoid delay, as do journalists getting ahead	PRESSON
Money put into one could have been an asset	TESSA
A bit of a fight	ROUND
He'll back a good horse	GAMBLER
Ageing, but with an unusually solid head of hair	OLDISH
The part of Mabel, as queen	MAB
The one bit of business that's best	IDEAL
Little things that can have ill effects	GERMS
Depend on getting a soft-hearted response	REPLY
Very close to ten in a trap	NEXT
As a rule, it's half walled up	LAW

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