January 14th 2020 - Evening Standard Cryptic

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January 14th 2020 Answers

Clue	Solution
Two points, say, for a try	ESSAY
Swear that cures are possible	CURSE
In action, perhaps, an about-turn calls for care	CAUTION
Criticism of one at the door?	KNOCK
Sort of joint cut at an angle	MITRE
When mouldy, could there be fur on it?	FRUIT
Rest and food for babies	NAPPIES
Of the town kind, as at Gateshead?	GAS
Being way out is no longer the thing	EXIT
She danced a man’s head off!	SALOME
Be slow to give credit for breaking the law	CRAWL
Lizards at long last giving audible echoes	GECKOS
May be seen as a line on the map	NILE
It sounds the same with the end cut off	HAH
Holding out, ran away, thus being scorned	FLOUTED
A gong that may barely clink	MEDAL
Use that handy wheel	STEER
Cockney dukes	FISTS
Overtly sad about the rent?	TEARFUL
Not given a roasting, but unreasonably fired	FRIED
In cars, they’re generally forward	GEARS
In sound English, not the price of vice!	SYNTAX
Admit there’s a metric measure in tangled tape	ACCEPT
Animal of many a kind?	YAK
Celebrities who should set a shining example	STARS
Some pumice in the coal? That’s funny!	COMICAL
One piece of ammunition	UNIT
The way a wild mare can run	STREAM
Is afraid fares must be revised	FEARS
That of a horse refusing to jump?	NEIGH
Arrest for robbery	PINCH
Understood to be grasped	GOTIT
Swede shattered when stitched up	SEWED
It’s great to expand	SWELL
More than over-protected?	COVERED
It’s annual, this noted flower	EASTER
Attractive and marriageable	NUBILE
The character of a communication	LETTER
Brownie fairly short of money?	FAIRY
Measure out the meat as mentioned	METE
Bad atmosphere in the mountain refuge	FUG

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