May 30th 2022 - Evening Standard Cryptic

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May 30th 2022 Answers

Clue	Solution
Prison officer with his own driver?	SCREW
To put back or add	TOTUP
Where once was wet and watery government, in France	VICHY
Teacher's letter to the Inland Revenue	SIR
Considered to tread unwarily?	RATED
Wherein there's little accommodation for the driver	MINICAB
Not even arranged right!	NEVER
A leading spinner	TOP
Walk a short way, then take a bus	STRIDE
They're crazy to get mixed up in a scam	MANIACS
It's only a small part of England	OXON
She gets Annie no end upset!	NINA
In dread, perhaps, and simply exhausted	DRAINED
When sour, the subject of pretence	GRAPES
Bend in a London street	BOW
Full of calories, it can make you spry around mid-January	SYRUP
Nominally half the number on a tram	BERTRAM
Heavy books, most being possibly about the earth	TOMES
Sturdy timber is good to have around one	OAK
In short, convenience	GENTS
He'll admit to being the proprietor	OWNER
Long period at the middle of the month	YEARN
Is she terribly sore about being single?	ROSIE
Moralist's wordy joke about a girl	PURITAN
Water creature caught in a small boat	CRAB
Key openings in equestrianism	EVENTS
An extra redhead, broader in the beam	WIDER
What the horse did when one was thrown?	SHIED
Preserve in gelatine	TIN
Crossed swords!	RAPIERS
Is he in prison for the century ahead?	CON
Very clear figures	VIVID
Break early in a race	RELAY
Writers who use clever cribs two ways	SCRIBES
Chinese societies grasping tools?	TONGS
Moral degeneration rooted in one's person	MOLAR
Original conurbation of Milton Keynes, for instance	NEWTOWN
Oust a silly dope with some ease	DEPOSE
Has it no right to be negative?	NOR
Cup in which to follow a dry cocktail with a half of beer	RYDER
A filling sort of paste	PUTTY
Constructor-driver?	MAKER
It's alcoholic, so better leave out the teetotaller	BEER
Hastened, like one getting out of the rain	RAN

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