May 21st 2020 - Evening Standard Cryptic

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May 21st 2020 Answers

Clue	Solution
My rise cannot possibly bring happiness	MISERY
Where the boatman gets badly out of line	MANITOBA
Charles keeps in fetters!	CHAINS
Points out some hate is simmering	STEWS
Posh emporium?	SHOP
Dance turn Hal’s upset about	HULA
Bit of a cat	ATOM
A patient task	JOB
One in the past a villain	IAGO
I’m half a day with a Muslim leader	IMAM
It comes later to one in search of illumination	AFTERGLOW
Obscurity leads to half the errors	MIST
In Ireland, a girl gets love	MAYO
Being on edge, he starts mumbling	HEM
Nominally a unit	ABEL
Marine creature bringing credit to a seaman	CRAB
Run out of escudos	SCUD
Like Christmas, one imagines	WHITE
Plenty of hard biscuit aboard ship!	STACKS
Give a girl a servile status	HANDMAID
A drink, but you can snap it like a biscuit!	BRANDY
Break into a jumbled mass on the top of the heap	SMASH
Nurse Lange, possibly?	ANGEL
A name in patriotism	OTIS
Like the tough guy who almost came up to the house	MACHO
A game of quick decision	SNAP
Firing at it, you’ll never hit it	RANDOM
In a pious way, I’m reformed by its moralising	HOMILY
The little old king’s sign of impatience	TUT
Did they stray from the orphanage?	WAIFS
Held forth thunderously	STORMED
Get into life’s later stages	AGE
Talk? Yes - to the point!	JAW
Engaged in getting riding equipment for the assault	ATTACK
Loiter with a low companion	MOOCH
Mean to go first class to Minehead	AIM
Is she up from the village out West?	GAL
He advises men on bad rot	MENTOR
Of Irish butter?	PAT
Like a presidential beard, possibly?	BUSHY
Is a hard hearted one a competitive newcomer?	RIVAL
Like a glass eye?	BEADY
Show an interest in the bar code?	SCAN
Delivery extra far out	WIDE

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