March 5th 2020 - Evening Standard Cryptic

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March 5th 2020 Answers

Clue	Solution
Struggles to exercise extraordinary gifts, getting out of breath	FIGHTS
Just the weapon to turn the tables?	REVOLVER
Country you can possibly sail round at last	ISLAND
That elegant grace porpoises have	POISE
Friend possessing one bucket	PAIL
She isn’t so saintly as Stella	ELLA
She gives a soldier contradictory directions	GIRL
Use leverage to satisfy curiosity?	PRY
Will he grow up a bigheaded rotter?	BRAT
A noted passion for old Ireland	EIRE
It gets noisier all the time	CRESCENDO
Prosecutes us wrongly for shortage of dues	SUES
No love of old chateau wine	HATE
Choose to go to pot?	OPT
Romeo after a woman at all times	EVER
“Woe is me”, as a girl said	ALAS
The blow that was Nero’s undoing	ONER
Possibly glib letter from an old seaman	BLIGH
Special delights that drive the taster wild	TREATS
Nobody can look forward to it for long	TOMORROW
Wild praise for the old country	PERSIA
Rubbish many can’t stomach	TRIPE
The use of ale, it could be said	AVAIL
Varsity man’s word for murder?	BLUE
Tuck, perhaps	FRIAR
A certain bitterness is good for everybody	GALL
The householder’s occupation	TENURE
Saying nothing about naval service	SILENT
Insolent Scandinavian?	OLE
Frolicking bears may suggest this dance	SABRE
Projector needed for baseball	PITCHER
Talk a lot in seeking asylum?	GAS
One paid for knotting ropes pointlessly?	PRO
Dislike being given the same errand twice?	RESENT
The perfect way I had brewed ale	IDEAL
Reduce one’s share	CUT
Heart to heart attention	EAR
A press release that’s pretty thin?	SPARSE
Carthaginian witch?	HAG
She’s in a grave state	VESTA
Sign of a confused liar clutching a bottle opener	LIBRA
Demonstrated how to go between two points	SHOWN
Are they rolled into the porridge?	OATS
Robert gets out for 50 – or a duck!	BLOB

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