February 7th 2022 - Evening Standard Cryptic

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February 7th 2022 Answers

Clue	Solution
Nowadays, choose to be parental	ADOPT
Points a friend out for punishment!	PENAL
A leftover admirer?	LOVER
A contrapuntal piece with impact	RAP
Early crash in a race	RELAY
Thinks mathematically?	FIGURES
Dance music with beat and energy	TANGO
Clean river?	LEA
In a plot, a bit of thinking that's overdue	BEHIND
Answers that one can make a pile in the reserves!	REPLIES
It can stop the pipes freezing in the attic	HEAT
Lover boy?	PHIL
Alarm by shaking rattles	STARTLE
A street light in the wrong place?	ASTRAY
It's colourful and huge, but not grand	HUE
All wrong about some boy being faithful	LOYAL
Sweetened as urged, possibly	SUGARED
Acting like a wild dingo	DOING
A mug of juice?	SAP
Cook, however, had no such ship!	STEAM
A suitable amount of decimation	TENTH
Strikes out with fresh heart, one gathers	REAPS
Worth resetting the timer	MERIT
Shakespeare character, a feline about to whimper	CAPULET
Cheats certain females	DOES
Illustrations of faces?	PLATES
Just the girl to make hay?	TOYAH
As a rule, grin wryly about a close finish	REIGN
Talk so much that you sound hoarse	NAG
The truth about wildest Italy	REALITY
Material in the fireplace	REP
In the recess, it's nice to tour Southend	NICHE
In a strangely uneven manner	ODDLY
In wrestling, put up with the pressure	BEARHUG
Swimming school	SHOAL
Annoyed with a deserter failing to commence duty?	RATTY
Happy to get a closed shop rented	PLEASED
Did she love to be surrounded by distracted males?	SALOME
Draw a vessel	TUG
The way down	SOUTH
Navigational aid for a lady in a posh car	RADAR
As far as one can sink?	DEPTH
Fracture one's fingers?	SNAP
What the train did from Grand Central	RAN

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