February 28th 2020 - Evening Standard Cryptic

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February 28th 2020 Answers

Clue	Solution
One’s utmost to equalise with the champion	LEVELBEST
I need to think – turn on the light	LETMESEE
Called from the step	RUNG
Having counted to about fifty, I had inserted the key	RELIED
The refuse bag, in a rage, hurled out	GARBAGE
Female with an obsession for covering things up	SHEATHING
When not working, given to being casual	OFFHANDED
Show the man’s taken to drink	PORTRAY
I’ve squeezed into the lift	THIEVE
Proceed, twit!	GOON
That’s all right – not any duller than before!	NOMATTER
By ten to one the vehicle must be back: he’s very strict	MARTINET
As there’s rain, are driven back	REAR
Turns red at this moment, to one’s surprise	WONDER
“He’s only kidding,” you chirp	TWITTER
Should have followed them out, I reckoned	METHOUGHT
Later will come the ermine and the throne, perhaps	FURTHERON
Trapping the nine escapees, you grant, is not hard	LENIENT
Is tracing it hard work for genealogists?	STRAIN
Dirty, like the little boy’s clothes	BLUE
A job that’s certainly nice to settle into	SINECURE
To start with, the scale of payment is excellent	FIRSTRATE
Gets angry – sure is worried and in a panic	FLARESUP
Street where the meeting is to take place?	AVENUE
A vegetable – and it gets consumed with alacrity	CELERITY
“Item of jewellery,” by the way, means “pearls”	STRING
They’re blooming pleased to get the ten fifty-one!	GLADIOLI
What makes you so hot on acting?	STAGEFEVER
Listen, for instance, to gossip	HEARSAY
Ask if there’s a desire for it in the marketplace	DEMAND
Be eager to stop in for something at the jeweller’s	PENDANT
In that, again, it is intimidating	THREAT
She has a terribly hard round to get through	RHODA
Thanks to the rain, he’s got lots of water around!	TAR
Clear about the time	OVERT
“Polish is a foreign language,” you say	FINISH
Despite the fact that the ticket seller considered it carefully	THOUGHTOUT
A setback for Aries that will be detrimental	MAR
Go to pieces when making dessert	CRUMBLE
Couldn’t stand trial when action was taken about	DETESTED
Some of our best friends are soldiers	TERRIERS
Having translated, submitted to for approval	RENDERED
Were obviously afraid, as the fish trapped were	COWERED
Game in which you go astray, then catch up	TENNIS
Distant, for a change, with the fellows	FAROFF
See and read about and get your fill of again	RELOAD

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