August 3rd 2022 - Evening Standard Cryptic

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August 3rd 2022 Answers

Clue	Solution
Optical device returned, sir, during the afternoon	PRISM
Wild bears, as in Scotland	BRAES
To hug madly is difficult	TOUGH
What Michael Faraday had, one imagines	ELF
Bear disaster at Birkenhead	BRUIN
Where to drive a decent distance	FAIRWAY
She has a line in fancy lace	CELIA
Support a first-class head of department	AID
Playing ball loftily?	SKYING
Game to provide vocal music for the French	SINGLES
The sort of fathead you want out of London	LOON
Sean, acting as statesman?	PENN
Ran off in dread, perhaps	DRAINED
Wants to go right into hollow places	CRAVES
Bit of a simpleton, you'll allow	LET
Kenneth conceals a hard heart from her	KAREN
One unconscious of being run over by a train	SLEEPER
Because wickedness ends in disgrace?	SINCE
Organise a ladder	RUN
In public ownership, say	STATE
Old Jack's vessel	KETCH
A female fragrance	AROMA
At snooker, it means a rest for one's opponent	BREAK
You can sing this, but please don't!	REFRAIN
He's in error, you know	RORY
Remains loyal, or maybe switches	STICKS
Wealth, yes, but my heart's a bit lonely	MONEY
A profit, and not for the first time	AGAIN
The goalie's name?	ALI
Harasses the beasts	BADGERS
Do well in sewing	WIN
Survived to raise the devil!	LIVED
One representing, for a long time, a theatre?	AGENT
It's bad when Les gets shifted out of town	SEVILLE
Smart, and fed up with being out of money	SLICK
It's like that great system we all live in	SOLAR
Ran out of men	PETERED
A unit of weighty material importance	DENIER
Born in the Pyrenees	NEE
Angry fellow, out of the race	RATTY
Goddess who was a match for Lucifer	VESTA
Peter's money?	PENCE
See uncle about a dirty trick!	SCAM
Place to turn up on Tuesday	PUT

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