January 5th 2022 - Evening Standard Cryptic

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January 5th 2022 Answers

Clue	Solution
The old fool jeers stupidly about a shirt tail	JESTER
Cause, for a time	OCCASION
A silly fellow, but with taste?	FOOL
Where Hobson's choice would not be Shanks's pony!	STABLE
On board, it's not a friendly thing to break	NOTICE
Piece of good advice from father	DAD
It goes round and round and back and forth	ROTOR
Can it still slide around after one gets out?	SLED
Townswoman in Oliver Twist	NANCY
A classic charmer who, for me, is less than ideal	MEDEA
Being festively honoured, interrupt a meal for a tango	FETED
One possibly plastered in an Eilat hotel	LATH
Make a special study of a former premier	MAJOR
Swimmer with a bad back	DAB
A regretful remark about the marines causes some fear	ALARMS
Annual fall	AUTUMN
Live on a half diet of vegetables	BEET
Be totally persuasive so as to trick a fellow	CONVINCE
Untidy little pigs!	LITTER
Makes notes about American tournament clashes	JOUSTS
Pity it's also rotten	TOOBAD
Tyrolean part?	ROLE
Island where the chief needs a bit of cash	MAJORCA
Speed restriction on an externally lit road	LIMIT
The man who came to dinner	INNER
A mere craze due to finish and pass away	FADE
Former ingredient in wool dyeing	OLD
Something to start young with	TOY
Get into trouble with the police	COPIT
Bird having a paddle?	WADER
Where to drink 'near-beer'?	LOCAL
Not gross, but there's a bar on it in Barnet	NET
Having been given encouragement, he's spurned!	NED
Incredible woman of the theatre	MERMAID
In favour of backing a poor finisher	FOR
News of some lads on trial	LATEST
Be very close to an objection?	ABUT
Proverbially hungry, could he eat a horse?	HUNTER
A contest to be equal to	MATCH
An outing with Juliet and Sally, perhaps	JAUNT
Outstanding, as expected	DUE
Abraham Lincoln, initially, was a murder victim	ABEL

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