October 20th 2021 - Evening Standard Cryptic

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October 20th 2021 Answers

Clue	Solution
A double blow for the French?	COUPLE
Possibly relaying by runner	YEARLING
In confusion, I met father	TIME
Phony American private eye?	SHAMUS
Rod accepts it as formally courteous	POLITE
A supporter of privilege	LEG
Made a heap, like the piper round the corner	PILED
Decided to keep the police out of the paper	DEED
If wrong, Edward gets punished	FINED
Nerve broken? Certainly not!	NEVER
Intimidated by a cowboy?	COWED
Mental state at the crack of doom?	MOOD
He flies with an awfully good bunch of chaps	PILOT
Can you play it with your eyes closed?	NAP
Not accustomed to us appearing in the nude, perhaps	UNUSED
Hamper the perfidious Goth, that is	HOGTIE
Admits there are various ways to love	OWNS
Prepare to fire a further flier	COCKATOO
Small man going to the city at an opportune moment	TIMELY
Stopped being cold and relaxed	CEASED
When ready, Mike snooped around	PRIMED
They can look to give noted encouragement	EYES
He'll swear the porter's upset about nothing!	TROOPER
Nice bit of cider for a villager having no beer	CIVIL
Looked to have taken the lead by an own goal	OGLED
Late change in a story	TALE
A fool, but at least he can hold his drink	MUG
Sliding cover?	LID
How quickly to play the tango, compose a poem	TEMPO
Plunges into low haunts?	DIVES
Being impish can bring a bit of fun to life, maybe	ELFIN
Not many can be heard to express relief!	FEW
He goes northeast a lot	NED
On which there can be no cryptically taped message	NOTEPAD
See an outsize lettuce	COS
Mother's about to nag drunkenly - it's all that champagne!	MAGNUM
Chooses the wrong spot	OPTS
It's dismally dull, back in the outskirts of Derby	DREARY
Make a hole in a sock?	PUNCH
Middling meal?	LUNCH
No point at present	NOW
Getting angry about nothing is a funny thing	HOOT

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