October 19th 2022 - Evening Standard Cryptic

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October 19th 2022 Answers

Clue	Solution
Loud defeat for a tooth cleaner	FLOSS
Junior team capable of horseplay?	COLTS
If Beckham went soft in the head, might he live here?	PECKHAM
Weight of a cart, possibly?	CARAT
I'm in the reserves for 'City'	REIMS
Hill, perhaps, where most diamonds can be found or cut	DAMON
Is his military career all over?	GENERAL
Lower on a farm	COW
She's four-fifths Hibernian!	IRIS
Don, we take it	ASSUME
Be inclined to buzz off	SLOPE
A number departed in extremes of timidity	TWENTY
Medicine ball	PILL
At school, nobody would miss him	SIR
Having very firm ideas, I got into bed	BIGOTED
When it's safe to move round the corner, they hop it!	FLEAS
Solidly built due to drink?	STOUT
Saucy hothead somewhere in Scotland	PERTH
So the people accept the socially acceptable poet	SOUTHEY
It helps make the village colourful	GREEN
She hasn't a single apple left!	PEARL
First person to use lead as an additive ingredient of derv	LEADER
Doesn't shoot the extras	SPARES
Horse trading group?	SET
It means good health to a drinker	SKOAL
Revel in a car by the river	CAROUSE
Sign an order at two points	OMEN
One beaten with the cat again?	TOMTOM
Like one's regular paper round?	DAILY
Talents one has done nothing to earn	GIFTS
More pleasant, albeit cold-hearted?	NICER
A youngster takes it to be an obsolete measure	CUBIT
The region of SE England (but it's at Harrow, surely?)	WEALD
The pest that wrecked a ship	APHIS
Cheese possibly not on the revised list	STILTON
Time to get the better of one's better half	WINTER
Whom dad will regard as a sailor	POPEYE
Permissive missive?	LETTER
Such awards can be fab, thanks	BAFTA
Safety device in its own box	FUSE
Go in for pipe playing	PEP

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