December 27th 2019 - Evening Standard Cryptic

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December 27th 2019 Answers

Clue	Solution
Attacks just as one starts	SETSABOUT
If he’s dropped, can’t the programme get under way?	ANCHORMAN
Deserve, you say, to get the bird	ERNE
Half even enrol when you order them to	ENJOIN
After a while it starts eating and it’s very destructive	TERMITE
Devastated at having contributed to the egg mountain?	LAIDWASTE
The alteration having damaged, meant to repair the interior	AMENDMENT
Hires for a song, to get involved in crime	SIGNSON
A shrew yours truly is about to take in hand	MANAGE
A cold, man? Just take an aspirin for it!	ACHE
With the punch-up at an end, is gradually forgotten	BLOWSOVER
Quite happy about, in Europe?	CONTINENT
Tip that made the beast cross	APEX
Horrified sat, trembling, beside the awful hag	AGHAST
Foreigner the child and I had seen running	CHINESE
Are the people in Twinhills plagued by him?	TORMENTOR
Rounded up, were quite unruffled	COLLECTED
“Denizen of cheap lodging house,” I enter in the file	DOSSIER
Climbs aboard, soon to find what one’s seeking?	SWARMS
Scuttle in very little water	TEAR
When I can’t break into the safe, contrive to use my wiles	FASCINATE
Get out of the crate: it disintegrated	EXTRICATE
In addition to being no less fit then	ASWELLAS
Does it always make the straphanger laugh?	STANDINGJOKE
Resumptions of the shenanigans	GOINGSON
A bit of luck during the hitting of the ball?	STROKE
Claim for support, financially	MAINTAIN
When it’s shot, does everyone disperse?	SCATTERGUN
A firm order to dispose of rust	CORRODE
Going round dressed like a priest	INVESTMENT
Mean to get treatment – I am in a state	MAINE
Though most sensible, is in an awful stew	WISEST
Wreck a gentleman got trapped in	MAR
Talked about, as one embarked on a high-cholesterol diet	CHEWEDTHEFAT
Plunge in to get submerged. It’s simply lovely	DIVINE
Had a launch that was blinking rotten!	BLASTEDOFF
I get a raven trained so it’s not eating worms	VEGETARIAN
Reduced the commission	CUT
Stopped working, dear, to take a break inside	ARRESTED
A friend to pass the time with	CELLMATE
At last the roses are pruned and one gives one’s approval	ENDORSES
Will call again at about five, it is arranged	REVISIT
“Mere tools,” one says menacingly	RASPS
There’s a box right by the hole	CRATER

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