July 9th 2021 - Evening Standard Cryptic

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July 9th 2021 Answers

Clue	Solution
He's fiendishly hard up and has my sympathy	POORDEVIL
A tense "No improvement is possible for me"	IMPERFECT
Lose your temper at the right time	RAGE
Continue boringly to tell you what prompted the child's nightmare?	DRAGON
Not very good, having mostly little-known actors in it	ONESTAR
As the prisoner does when there's a rash of escapes	BREAKSOUT
Brown is fattening	CHOCOLATE
Confer, unusually, with the East to put it into effect	ENFORCE
From Rome, getting right back in a shake	TREMOR
She got caught by the lion	CLEO
Wearing it, does one look like nothing on earth	SPACESUIT
This bird, among others, gets breadcrumbs	REDBREAST
If it's broken, that's understandable	CODE
At sea, it's bad	ADDLED
Returns because the wrens inside must be freed	ANSWERS
Sheltered in a bower he had outside	HARBOURED
Sick and dirty	OFFCOLOUR
A sailor giving an officer a parcel	MATELOT
Carry the fellow in drunk	LIFTUP
Drink, which is sad	DOWN
Escorted to some low venue, as promised	UNDERTOOK
Cheat the firm and he'll arrest you	CONSTABLE
If it can be worked, be getting parole, somehow	OPERABLE
A promontory in the mouth of the river?	TONGUEOFLAND
Making clear to one, with a hint	OVERTONE
A little sun: fair	SLIGHT
Top up the drink the freelance has	PINNACLE
As far as "useless and making mischief"	UPTONOGOOD
Assumed, for the moment, that I do rent out	TRIEDON
Began with the fat boys (two of them) on the inside	STARTEDOUT
Run further	EXTRA
A nut cracker Nellie is holding	KERNEL
Nip the nipper	TOT
Convince that you'll give notice	LEAVENODOUBT
Quickly set off for the outskirts	PRESTO
What made you laugh in the doctor's waiting room?	SICKHUMOUR
Had too little endurance, one grasped	UNDERSTOOD
The gun that beats the others?	ROD
Refined woman you are fond of	LADYLIKE
A fellow with the gift of the gab and rich	AFFLUENT
That he's new to here is more surprising	STRANGER
Catches in the river and the locals are put out about it	COLLARS
Embarrassed at having to go in to be scolded	RATED
Starting to warm to the job?	OFFICE

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