May 20th 2022 - Evening Standard Cryptic

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May 20th 2022 Answers

Clue	Solution
Too tired-looking and in debt	OVERDRAWN
Incurring a bill for the making of, fast	RUNNINGUP
Understand there’s to be no declaration	KNOW
Grants the maid’s free time is included in it	ADMITS
Aggressive when it’s back in the burrow	HOSTILE
You’ll need it for the roast - and turn the veg on, dear	OVENGLOVE
He brings news of chaos at the Green Rally	MESSENGER
He got into a terrible state in China, for instance	THEEAST
Plot to strike and create pandemonium	BEDLAM
Proposal I accepted in “33”	PLAN
Does it think it makes cycling at night safer?	REFLECTOR
Looking sad, is telling misery to go away	WOEBEGONE
First a thumbs down then a thumbs up, from the corner	NOOK
Masses of cold stewed plums	CLUMPS
Ever so strange article from abroad	OVERSEA
Having seats outside mean not being together	SEPARATED
Leaves one with no filthy lucre?	CLEANSOUT
He has a big head with a small hat to cover it	BOASTER
Only taking exercise in it in front of everybody!	OPENLY
Like a sap, tease	TWIT
Learn differently about the Scandinavian when you listen	LENDANEAR
Attended to the broken limb, though drunk	PLASTERED
Reading material unpacked, leaves the hotel	BOOKSOUT
Become uninhibited and no longer bother about personal appearance	LETONESELFGO
And so, in the shack, makes the distribution	HANDSOUT
From teatime, in dire need of something to eat	ENDIVE
Supposed to have gone on to the piano	PRESUMED
Keeping cool when surpassed by	INTHESHADE
A good one will give the better value for money	TIPSTER
Looks for the exotic canape with the fruit filling	APPEARANCE
Off - or working	GOING
Wine, Robert?	GRAVES
Except for some notes of music	BAR
Is anticipating, as one tries to find where the patient is	LOOKSFORWARD
Give me a home on the outskirts that’s humble	DEMEAN
Reminds that one wishes to gain admission	RINGSABELL
Get down to business in a powwow with a foreign country	TALKTURKEY
Had been cut up	WAS
Cod I ordered that’s only about second-rate	MEDIOCRE
Change too much	OVERLOAD
It just shows what the high-ups get up to!	ALTITUDE
The tool the fellow took up: a rake	FRETSAW
Clear but not easy on the eye	PLAIN
Most unpleasant people, sneaks	CREEPS

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