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May 1st 2019 Answers

Clue	Solution
Suitable supporter, it seems	PROPER
In the minority, but capable of due anger	UNDERAGE
The early bird	DAWN
Soldiers holding a sailor back for nothing	GRATIS
More than double	THRICE
Allowed out of jail, etc.	LET
In the desert, it's refreshingly different	OASIS
Show sign of life in prison	STIR
It's silly for an agent to be out of work	SOPPY
German town orchestra	HALLE
How to complain of overheating?	HOTLY
A growing boy	HERB
The driver will help fix it	SCREW
Sound sheepish	BAA
Surly fellows Charlie chucks	CHURLS
The cat gets us more upset	MOUSER
Fit to return from Elba	ABLE
Musical characters born with the gift	NATURALS
Concealing the fact that a good one can hurt	HIDING
Quietly persuades to make drastic eliminations	PURGES
Horse taking dad round the corner	PLATER
Dashes for the ladders	RUNS
What a fresh girl could give a jilted suitor	NEWHOPE
French airs arranged for piano	PARIS
Town in fertile Wessex	LEWES
Welshman accepting an apprentice painter	DALI
Point to it as something clever	WIT
He sounds a note	RAY
When detectives need some beer, will this do?	CIDER
Is she apt to be prickly?	HOLLY
Set fire to the church on the hill	TORCH
Rested, being not quite up to the task	SAT
Work with wood?	PLY
Errors of crying children?	HOWLERS
Mother's?	HER
Not easily drawn	HAULED
Simplicity of the centrepiece of a teaset	EASE
Fetch out an article for stripping	BARING
Not much to read, just a letter	SCANT
A rotten shade of red	RUSTY
As a hanger-on, he's a swinger	BOB
Sham, maybe, but tasteful	MASH

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