August 16th 2021 - Evening Standard Cryptic

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August 16th 2021 Answers

Clue	Solution
Went slowly, but with credit, at a key point	CREPT
Saintly Alan embracing a blockhead!	ALBAN
A game with plenty to it	LOTTO
In opposition	OUT
Where the whisky is sheer poetry?	ISLAY
Maybe a man can't sing this high part	DESCANT
Playing it, is there little room for love?	CELLO
Covered in starch, ideally	HID
Chest expanders for servicemen?	MEDALS
An odd piece of virtu to us	CURIOUS
Do you need pluck to play it?	HARP
Something afoot that sounds frightening to cats, etc.	SHOE
Authorise some men to take ownership	ENTITLE
Where, in Italy, poetry heartens the new man	MODENA
Reminder to start the ball rolling?	CUE
It exudes from the old soldier	SWEAT
Colouring agent used by mother?	MAGENTA
As Sybil said, she's a sorceress	SIBYL
Dad's right to be normal	PAR
The man who came to dinner	INNER
State of a crashed plane	NEPAL
£50 notes held in lawful fashion	LEGAL
Ice-cold enemies round the corner	FLOES
Put right what the chap put wrongly?	PATCHUP
The balance negotiated in sterling, partly	REST
Puts at the head of the field, at last	PLACES
Trifled with a toy boy?	TOYED
Nevertheless, calm	STILL
It came to a stop in a Marilyn Monroe movie	BUS
Girl in a state? Quite the reverse!	INDIANA
Excellent, never-ending melody	AIR
Machine or article at the play centre	LATHE
Rosie's willowy form	OSIER
Show the score to a pupil	MUSICAL
Friends much upset by a skinhead	CHUMS
Coarse, cloth-headed, uncivil!	CRUDE
One unconscious of being run over by a train	SLEEPER
In the Irish Republic, the New Testament is unabridged	ENTIRE
Tough? Oh no!	TUG
Due to a duck having to fly	OWING
Support for an artist's views	EASEL
Has Jack a treatment for warts?	STRAW
Name my regiment	MYRA
Can you play it in your sleep?	NAP

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