August 27th 2021 - Evening Standard Cryptic

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August 27th 2021 Answers

Clue	Solution
Never quite get to the point, yet persuade	TALKROUND
Avail oneself of totally in a way that's helpful	USEFULLY
Then dropped the squirming wet creature in the pond	NEWT
Shoot and you get too close to the fire	SCORCH
Be tired, in a way, of Italian food	LASAGNE
At which one got information directly from the original employee	FIRSTHAND
Meant somehow to conceal the repair and the alteration	AMENDMENT
Determine again to find the answer to	RESOLVE
When it gets hard to find just what one owns	ASSETS
Is going to Wales; was left land	ISLE
Meant I was by myself in the interim	MEANTIME
Put a mock warning out? I am surprised at you!	FORSHAME
Satisfied I would come back with the news	ITEM
Yes, there is a way to pierce the torpor	APATHY
They don't hide from the rain	SHOWERS
Blurred, which is something of a mystery	HARDTOSEE
Tidied and made a pile from	CLEANEDUP
Indulgent, allowed the nine incarcerated to go free	LENIENT
Embarrassed, steal back to the frontier	BORDER
"Pretty remote", I interposed	FAIR
Reveal the day is near	DISCLOSE
An irritability that is found trying?	TESTINESS
Allow that you give your seat up to	STANDFOR
Look furious, having got a shiner	GLOWER
Pressure put on to buy	PURCHASE
Loved making a fuss over a communist	ADORED
On which people clean their feet when in a hurry?	RUSHMATS
Start to recover - your sense of touch?	FEELBETTER
For the under eleven, diminish	SUBSIDE
The pest is given a leg up, mistakenly	PLAGUE
Decides to have wooden seats	SETTLES
Thanks to having been given (albeit temporarily) the ability	TALENT
The skin wasn't firm, you say	SUEDE
That's a good one!	ACE
Not all monsieur caught in the river	SOMME
Disconcerted at being dislodged from the saddle	THROWN
Having a job to get correctly placed	INPOSITION
A clever little insect	FLY
How you said "I've lost two stone"?	LIGHTLY
Is afraid a thousand choirboys have got trapped	TREMBLES
Understand the meaning of "Be rational"	SEESENSE
Hide the drink cupboard	SUPPRESS
Do limbering up exercises for a while	STRETCH
A clear case for the can: crooked and bad	RANCID
Hint Jack is being hidden up by the clergyman	CURATE
He takes a gun out from a sliding compartment	DRAWER

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