January 21st 2020 - Evening Standard Cryptic

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January 21st 2020 Answers

Clue	Solution
A black suit	CLUBS
As used in making pies around Christmas, initially?	SPICE
Evidently cereal repast	OATMEAL
To a medical person, it means scope	AMBIT
We hear it has charms	MUSIC
Prevents arrests?	STOPS
Like that Baconian theory, a bit unreliable	STREAKY
Harlesden’s youth centre?	LES
Employer of a shifty ruse	USER
Some rubbish about a safety device	REFUSE
Certainly not the distaff	SPEAR
Foreigners, as around the Nile, possibly	ALIENS
I had to back the Gunners to attack	RAID
There’s a “water” kind (in the Euphrates?)	RAT
A number happening to be in the fringes of society	SEVENTY
I avow it’s a southern river!	SWEAR
Soundly bred on plain food	BREAD
By sheltering the sick, make a name	BILLY
Legendary builder who redeveloped our slum	ROMULUS
Starting with fifty, he returned with nine	LENIN
Something electrifyingly hairy?	SHOCK
It’s after 51 thousand that there are restrictions	LIMITS
It’s for water but contains oil	BOILER
Rested, then returned to an incomplete task	SAT
May it form friendship	AMITY
More than plentiful evidence of embroidery skill	SAMPLER
Extra soft, with a bit of lustre	PLUS
Many wage adjustments mean trouble	CRISES
Avoids reading things full of rubbish?	SKIPS
To tease us up is sweet!	SUGAR
A terrible fire at the end of the street involves repair	REFIT
Lord socially acceptable in disorganised clan	LUCAN
At journey’s end, see many looking off-colour	SEEDY
Speedy winner in a famous car	RACER
Where wintry precipitation’s almost done?	SNOWDON
Annie’s boy?	LAURIE
You can do what you like with it	RELISH
Of the emphatic type?	ITALIC
Old place name, rum as can be	SARUM
In which a woman could give herself airs?	SARI
Busoni piece usually without conductor	BUS

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