December 25th 2019 - Evening Standard Cryptic

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December 25th 2019 Answers

Clue	Solution
At intervals, dad exercises	PAUSES
Seize the occasion, but don't do so immediately	TAKETIME
River put to no practical purpose?	OUSE
Bell that didn't mean a lot to a dog	CURFEW
Watchful about central Kilburn, he was nearer Victoria	ALBERT
A foot back	AFT
For music, improves the pitch	TUNES
Is commonly given a unique finish	ONLY
Turn up distrustful and self-assertive	PUSHY
An arresting thing for a sailor to say	BELAY
A fatherly bloomer?	POPPY
Titled little boy?	BART
In a struggle to treat a wart	ATWAR
A vessel? Yes, on the starboard side	JAR
Counties with a common end	SHIRES
Weight of a cocky little boxer?	BANTAM
A distance from home	AWAY
Piling up in capital style	ACCRUING
In one main sense, he knows the ropes	SEADOG
Villa in Mexico once	PANCHO
Conventional in a materialistic way?	STUFFY
Cook, using some steam and little water	STEW
Not necessarily wealthy or wise	HEALTHY
Provided drink all round when the day was victorious	GIVEN
Small men in urgent straits	GENTS
By word of mouth or a letter	ORAL
Fixed the telly?	SET
Purchase, by the sound of it	BUY
Allude in freer usage	REFER
Soft or mushy, like certain fiction?	PULPY
Where to go up	NORTH
Go very quietly out East	PEP
Outskirts of Salisbury, for instance	SAY
Confirmed the dreary fellow was ejected	BOREOUT
Knock up to standard	PAR
You couldn't give one straight to a monkey	BANANA
Tray fashioned in aesthetic style	ARTY
Subduing, thanks to an old Chinese	TAMING
In this state, you shouldn't go short of tea	ASSAM
To gain a companion, a cranky thing to do?	WINCH
Is there much talk of exercising it?	JAW
Plenty to carry	BAGS

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