December 26th 2019 - Evening Standard Cryptic

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December 26th 2019 Answers

Clue	Solution
Get to suit	BECOME
In optics, a bit of looker?	EYEPIECE
Get together against backing a dog and a horse	GANGUP
Nominally you'll find a clue in central Dakar	ALIAS
Joe, by the way, is the tenor	GIST
The high cost of terrorism?	BOMB
Writers of a footnote about certain points	PENS
Not all crab apples can be eaten	BAP
Kick in the rear?	BOOT
Biblical name in every thesaurus	ESAU
Grand old guard giving timely information	GOLDWATCH
Nevertheless one may be thought really to exist	YETI
She's back, more than half asleep	ELSA
Satisfied with a methodical start	MET
Prevalent depression in the countryside?	VALE
Pressure on a youth with nothing to hide?	LOAD
Dispose of, part used, for £50	SELL
Border on being edgy	VERGE
Charm a chap with temptation	ALLURE
A case of 'hit and run' involving children	ROUNDERS
Nowadays, an opening is always coming	ADVENT
Food they bake badly at Birkenhead?	KEBAB
Material may be mined	DENIM
Make a little love with a light touch	KISS
Start to live with spirit	BEGIN
Is incapable of hypocrisy?	CANT
The terrorists twice gave mum a turn	MAUMAU
Liquid maybe, but a mug will take only half	ASSETS
Owl fluttering near the ground	LOW
Good man's boat wrecked around Beachy Head	ABBOT
On the cards as good advice?	GETWELL
A case of seediness?	POD
Utterance of a bachelor on fishing lunch	BAH
Is he a Romeo to a girl?	OLIVER
Climb on a fish's back, perhaps?	SCALE
Achieve one's target at last	GET
The dealer's drink?	ALE
Held to rhyme with 'howled'	YELLED
With wages cut, will he joke?	WAG
Warning of real disaster starting tomorrow?	ALERT
Tell someone the arrangement?	ORDER
Possibly needs to be thick	DENSE
Satisfied it's safe	SURE
Do such tomatoes taste like grapes?	VINE

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