December 12th 2022 - Evening Standard Cryptic

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December 12th 2022 Answers

Clue	Solution
There's a seat for each honoured companion	PERCH
A book on Capone, a disreputable American	ALBUM
On paper, they can make a star out of nothing	ROTAS
By quiet hesitation	PER
Would he bail out a skinhead?	BASIL
It appears to be some orphan named Tom	PHANTOM
Cut, thus causing severe reduction	SEVER
Go wrong out of sheer terror?	ERR
This appetite is unusual in wild deer	DESIRE
Don't you need to save any money for them?	DRYDAYS
The whiskey she's short of isn't Scotch	IRIS
Spy going underground	MOLE
A wave of destruction?	BREAKER
Wealth a drunken sot needs for birds	RICHES
This little chap is wrong a lot	SID
Those of a cricket body?	ASHES
Getting dressed makes a famous old model weary	ATTIRED
My consumption of gin, perhaps, is parsimonious	MINGY
American tin	CAN
Food for certain days	SALAD
Was outside the theatre advertising one's needs!	WANTS
Nelson Eddy's donkey	NEDDY
A start in Greek?	ALPHA
Valuable pictures of workers in revolution?	TURNERS
The pantomime dame's cheese?	EDAM
See increases coming at critical moments	CRISES
In tattered galoshes, they spoil the waterproofing	HOLES
Hesitate to be the flag bearer?	WAVER
It takes but a trice to finish her off!	BEA
The margins a business head demands?	BORDERS
A shot at goal?	TRY
A face-saving device, but the knight saw through it	VISOR
It's fun to have several during a dance	REVEL
Was it on TV for generations?	DYNASTY
The pound sign	LIBRA
Abandon at the roadside	DITCH
Decimal system absurdly claimed to be clinical	MEDICAL
I had bees swarming around right next door!	BESIDE
A make-up outfit?	KIT
Mali's religion?	ISLAM
Tough guy getting a letter from a tennis star	HEMAN
A recent survey revealed hundreds of them!	CENTS
Elderly to a rising degree!	AGED
Managed to get a part in Turandot	RAN

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