December 18th 2020 - Evening Standard Cryptic

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December 18th 2020 Answers

Clue	Solution
Past its best, like the balloon about to pop?	OVERBLOWN
Oh, back in gaol, having misbehaved? He's thoroughly lawless	HOOLIGAN
Hello! That means winter's here!	HAIL
Coming a day before the opening	ADVENT
She'll tell you your future is entirely in your own hands	PALMIST
Has to have mould - there's nothing else for it	NEEDSMUST
Continuing to put the clothes on the line or waiting	HANGINGON
Have the teeniest bit of broth, do	SOUPCON
Had I not gone off by myself punctually	ONTIME
Is lonely only having left land	ISLE
A ribbon round the royal vessel	STREAMER
Were noisy as they formed the queue	MADEAROW
Having courage, you say, is game	HART
Moved Enid out to accommodate the child	INCHED
Very like the gentleman sorting the mail inside	SIMILAR
Particularly doctors have to take a decrease	MOSTOFALL
Dirty work under cover of night?	DARKDEEDS
Believe to be a regular visitor to our shores	SWALLOW
In this case it's raining and everybody goes inside	WALLET
The name on the hoarding	BILL
Encourage with a ghostly presence?	INSPIRIT
They can turn gold into silver	GREYHAIRS
Holding the ties by the top and bottom	BOTHENDS
Want to reshuffle the side again	DESIRE
A kindly act that deserves our applause	GOODTURN
Giving all one's attention to when camping out	INTENT
Talk about expense vouchers?	CHITCHAT
Furious when someone's stamped on your toe?	HOPPINGMAD
Making a home in, with the scoundrel	VILLAIN
Shrinking from the old crone holding the box	HATING
Returning home mad and in a daze	STUNNED
The fool with the lollipop?	SUCKER
Complete, as you say	UTTER
It's not their turn either to go round	OUR
A seat to put in the sun	STOOL
He had held the arm that was injured	HARMED
What the compilation of an instruction booklet is?	MANUALWORK
Cross mother up	MAD
Getting the garment, I seem to have turned on the central heating	CHEMISE
Grasp, too, that you approve of	HOLDWITH
Concealed from or shown to the public	SCREENED
On balance, not so unable to stay still	RESTLESS
Large servings of food - old stewed chops	DOLLOPS
The satin's spoiled by the marks	STAINS
Soak the leg due to be operated on	DELUGE
Is English permissible? Find out	ELICIT

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