August 5th 2021 - Evening Standard Cryptic

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August 5th 2021 Answers

Clue	Solution
Quicker to make a fatheaded bloomer	FASTER
Swift traveller	GULLIVER
On paper, the person in charge	EDITOR
In macaroni, once, a pungent ingredient	ONION
A diminutive figure, but growing	WEED
Western snake that stings rather than bites	WASP
Is in the record as an imperfect utterance	LISP
Many will disagree with it	FEW
Club with a possibly lofty purpose	IRON
Too long to wait for a half of sausages	AGES
Awkwardly situated in a game, rooks need moving	SNOOKERED
Reminders that a key can be put to use!	CUES
Behind the clock	LATE
Distress of women who've lost a couple of letters	WOE
Actress and singer dear to the French	CHER
Go back, darlings!	STEP
To take us on, perhaps, requires intelligence	NOUS
Finish breakfast at leisure, then lead on	TEASE
The idea that beef's about a pound	BELIEF
Names a couple of Chopin pieces	FREDERIC
It's hard to keep fish in a dirty place	STEELY
A little light is shining	AGLOW
The Spanish girl's boy	ELVIS
Hero worthy of a medal	LION
Allows to go cold, pronouncedly!	FREES
Slip across the road	SKID
Suggests it's OK to interrupt women	EVOKES
Go and tread unwarily around the pierhead	DEPART
Talk the hind leg off a horse?	NAG
Suppose there's nothing to long for	OPINE
We slink around getting things to eat	WINKLES
Game derived partly from polo?	LOO
Supplied by a G-man	FED
A name for certain parts of a horoscope	ROSCOE
Genoese fliers? No no!	GEESE
Girl appeal	SUE
It's receptive at the heart centre	EAR
Being secretive, finished in court	COVERT
He gets a bit of shut-eye at "13 Down"	LES
Angry, making a lot of noise in parts of Hungary	HUFFY
Hang around waiting for the feathers?	TARRY
Piece to listen to in silence	PEACE
The exact place, it appears	NICE
Orderly in quite a big way	TIDY

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