December 20th 2019 - Evening Standard Cryptic

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December 20th 2019 Answers

Clue	Solution
When the car comes in, give a wave, Father’s home	VICARAGE
Pop back to secure	PIN
From star, slipping to small roles	EXTRAS
The source yields nothing and I ring off	ORIGIN
Will it teach you not to go barefoot?	TRAINER
Where the book I got was sent	TOME
Struck one as, one found	CAMEACROSS
Following suit, one swots up on it	TESTCASE
Even turning the cover round brightened it up	LIVENED
Saucy, in the main	ARCH
The sun shield is ridiculous – quite mad	INSANE
Doing whatever is necessary to make oneself look big?	GOINGTOANYLENGTHS
See the pound slipped inside as an insult	SLIGHT
A buffet for the party	BASH
In the lady’s case, it constitutes an agreement	COMPACT
For us, I made out a list that’s appropriate	SUITABLE
Making out to be perceptive	DISCERNING
Man, that does look sore!	CHAP
Are called in to put things in order	ARRANGE
Leave to show the trade union president	DEPART
Having written, to cancel	DELETE
Reserved for the cast	SHY
It’s one way, coming back from the clothes shop	SINGLETS
Speed, yelling “It’s exciting!”	RIPROARING
It’s slang for “a thrill”? Precisely!	BANG
The local freelance is impossible to shake off	BARNACLE
Speak of, myself: not in the revised version	MENTION
Briefly, meaning you must get cracking if you want food	INANUTSHELL
Does it make a dent in the good weather figures?	DEPRESSION
Still, has turned it into a musical	STATIC
“Mean” means paring the cheese	PARMESAN
Intends to put a large picture up outside	PLANS
Flushing at “Rather late in the day”	EVENING
Gets round so one contacts	RINGS
Attacked for having used as a stand	SETUPON
It shows you’re wrong on both scores – and cheat	DOUBLECROSS
Tell you what firefighters do? Oh, buzz off!	GOTOBLAZES
Taking little time to assess as below standard	SECONDRATE
With the return “Real thug,” dissolves into giggles	LAUGHTER
Drove off before one had exerted oneself unduly	OVERDONE
Defame, at a press gathering, the English	ASPERSE
As a gift, given a dear fur	TIPPET
He’s all dressed up – fine for an American	DANDY
Hide in a tree	PALM

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