December 16th 2020 - Evening Standard Cryptic

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December 16th 2020 Answers

Clue	Solution
There's trouble when he embraces the wrong lass	HASSLE
Rendered restless when ridiculed?	DEBUNKED
Hope earnestly not to be short	LONG
The person pulled, it seems, is sweet	DRAGEE
Echo in a ravine, nominally	GEORGE
A soldier might eat it (as Burns would?)	WAD
Later, you can get fat on a half of beer	AFTER
Sean as statesman?	PENN
As merchants, brought port to the East End?	DEALT
A little round hole you can see through	PUPIL
Incomprehensible letter to a murder victim	BABEL
Club it could be shocking for a king to join	COSH
Cut severely short!	SEVER
Does dad keep her quiet?	MUM
Son of Rex?	PRINCE
In getting a horse out, he's of service	MARINE
An outing for the team in part of Dorset	EXIT
Do less ironing	DECREASE
Given a 50-50 chance by an angry bull?	TOSSED
Criminal delay?	HOLDUP
Catchword meaning nothing in slang, perhaps	SLOGAN
Some seed germinating in the border	EDGE
Will it make everything all right?	CUREALL
It's worn in outright burlesque!	SKIRT
Irrational dread of a snake	ADDER
Green fabric?	LAWN
If wrong, he's fined	NED
Frequently at no altitude at all	OFT
Little things that can keep a redhead in jewellery	GERMS
Be repulsive as you dance round the piano	REPEL
"Duck!" said Ida	EIDER
Give voice to?	DUB
Trouble in Ismailia	AIL
Quietly bent on getting a drink	PARCHED
He's less than benign	BEN
They're collectively interesting	CURIOS
Neglect an order for the thing in question	OMIT
Mended at last	HEELED
That Sam character's home in the southeast	SPADE
Motherless man beset by sinfulness?	VINCE
A well-known name in raincoats, we hear	MAX
Many have to tee up, we gather	MEET

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