August 22nd 2019 - Evening Standard Cryptic

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August 22nd 2019 Answers

Clue	Solution
Lower to the sea bed, strangely enough	DEBASE
An easy victory for the pedestrian	WALKOVER
Civil War general's anger at not being backed	IRETON
Birds ask us out	SKUAS
Uncle Fred's musical symbol	CLEF
Thanks to an MP, apply force	TAMP
An otter's lair in Northolt	HOLT
That backward boy	YOB
Abraham Lincoln initially as murder victim	ABEL
Slavonic river?	AVON
Advertising, etc., in favour of keeping things moving	PROMOTION
Politician's treatment centre at central hospitals	PITT
Fully centralised by November, but of no consequence	NULL
Less than a siphonful	SIP
Now it can be a word of warning	THEN
Unhappy when left in a sticky situation	GLUM
Excessively light-headed, the worker can handle it	TOOL
State the chief foregone conclusion	MAINE
Plays the banjo to get drinks on the street	STRUMS
Bullfighter who possibly orated some words	TOREADOR
Charlie's darlings?	ANGELS
Misquote Oliver?	TWIST
Lamb creating a record by possessing a uniform	ALBUM
How a swot pulls up	TOWS
Formal procedure for a healer of the sick	DRILL
Muscular power transforms some of the feeble	BEEF
The place in front is just right	SPOTON
Pass on the story and make it real	RETAIL
A piece of cake, we hear, for a girl	KAY
A bit on the side	APART
The C.O., we hear, is a bit of a nut	COLONEL
Border of Bethlehem?	HEM
Over there in the canyon	YON
A base Shakespeare role	BOTTOM
Singing boatmen's river	VOLGA
Seedy Dickens character	PIP
Nutcracker container?	TUN
In a cylinder it moves to different points	PISTON
Early riser	SUN
Armies of innkeepers?	HOSTS
Colin Dale's girl	LINDA
Being cheerful makes me sorry? Not so!	MERRY
Something to play, for it means wealth	TUNE
Mete out what is suitable!	MEET

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