January 21st 2022 - Evening Standard Cryptic

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January 21st 2022 Answers

Clue	Solution
Why you need proof, of course	TOBESURE
Like hard wood	ASH
Taking one child to the concert	UNISON
Steal away to have a drink	SPIRIT
Concealing the old crack was responsible for the disaster	TRAGEDY
Make your mark in a very short time	TICK
Be first, perhaps, to last the person one can most depend on	BESTFRIEND
Foreigner set on and beaten up by a Scotsman	ESTONIAN
Asks the sea to recede and the sand to swirl	DEMANDS
See it's an awkward situation	SPOT
Show an outdated attitude	EXPOSE
An average person - not some stay-at-home woman!	THEMANINTHESTREET
Get the girl in to identify the bird	GANNET
The gentleman with the spectacles inside is a N. African	MOOR
Getting the cover back on, lady, is the problem	DILEMMA
Fleeing, then, or escaping, unfollowed	ONTHERUN
Where one searched for the fellow suffering from alcoholic depression?	HIGHANDLOW
Shot that gives you quite a shock	TURN
It gives little testimony to the pastry cook's skill	TARTLET
He sings three times	TREBLE
A hoot and a cry of fear	SCREAM
No sound from the stable is heard	NAY
A story we rewrote and how long it took	TWOYEARS
Having to be paid for, though somewhere else	NOTPRESENT
Stand to produce	BEAR
The number spoken was mumbled	MUTTERED
Carrying the alarm - it's very light	FEATHER
Hide in Oxford	SHOELEATHER
The way in which so many of us travel	BUSYSTREET
Know it takes time to get through to a young thing	KITTEN
Going to Pat's house in winter clothes	TOPCOATS
For the prize draw, a stand	AWARD
With the swap in train, Ed returned	TRADEIN
Getting the ball, I have a knock up in the yard	PATIO
Make out, as before, you'll minister to	PRETEND
A rock band	DIAMONDRING
A while later, on leaving prison	AFTERATIME
Silly behaviour with which to bamboozle the cat?	TOMFOOLERY
Speak the name, giving weight to it	ANNOUNCE
Can I turn it on, somehow, to get it working?	INACTION
When it gets jammed in an entrance, worry	AGITATE
Watch the woman holding the nutcracker	HUNTER
Left in "pious," it being in keeping with Christmas	HOLLY
Flat number seventeen it's installed in	EVEN

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