August 26th 2022 - Evening Standard Cryptic

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August 26th 2022 Answers

Clue	Solution
Flown over, he had covered it	HOVERED
Meets on the crash course?	BUMPSINTO
With characteristic skill, reversing it	TRAIT
Women love ordering about - I for one	VOWEL
Is looking for compliments	REGARDS
Not pouring into the can I prepared to hold it	CONTAIN
Liking the result of one’s elbow grease	SHINE
Move slowly, with a quack, into the drink!	AMBLE
It shines when the sun ain’t out!	SATIN
A river fish caught in a moat	TRENCH
In consequence, the others turn left to enter	RESULT
One is restoring order in it, but it’s most unpleasant	NOISOME
Be aware that you can make it come true	REALISE
Give you a feeling of excitement when you attack	TURNON
He disputes it, with weight	DENIER
Mean the i, small, should be a capital	PARIS
A little tart and a cake with no filling	PIECE
High jinks - and they’re often very high!	LARKS
He was captured many years after	HOSTAGE
At last somehow nail the fly, having trapped it	FINALLY
That’s uncle starting the barn dance	SAMBA
Miss the green	OLIVE
“First-class meals” is right	STARBOARD
Extend the period of time	STRETCH
A land governed by the same chief	DOMAIN
Bottle up the remainder of the water	RESTRAIN
When food is to be dished out in jail	SERVINGTIME
Bird that created havoc in the china shop?	BULLFINCH
Rejected the incentive and returned home	SPURNED
Reminds that you’ve forgotten to give the front door key to?	RINGSABELL
It’s pouring rain and cooler	STIR
Becomes attached to and puts up with	STICKS
Cheated, being warped	TWISTED
While having had a very French upbringing, you say	ASSERT
Boxer who gets his opponents livid?	BRUISER
Sticking ever-closely to fact? Definitely	TOOTRUE
At which people seek to be entertained?	SEARCHPARTY
A warning about cigarettes being bad for you?	SMOKEALARM
Most unhappy to learn the store has gone into liquidation	HEARTSORE
To walk off with a few trophies is delightful	WINSOME
Information that the lorry is going to shed its load?	TIPOFF
It’s very easy to topple	PUSHOVER
Pip again in and you get angry	SEERED
A ploy to restrain the frisky bay - a real fun lover	PLAYBOY
For each pastry one consumes	APIECE
The m, o, n or y of “money”?	NOTE

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