December 8th 2022 - Evening Standard Cryptic

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December 8th 2022 Answers

Clue	Solution
Divide a bit out, just for the moment	BISECT
Peseta we changed for a climber	SWEETPEA
At such a meal, pals possibly get high	SLAPUP
That Enigmatic English composer	ELGAR
Where, on a vessel, quietly to use oars?	PROW
Is even more compact if it's a Mini	DISC
Will eating it make you husky?	BRAN
Is such diving a bit risky?	SKY
The middle-class woman	THEA
It holds up speakers, etc., in the hall	DAIS
That backward business before blast-off	COUNTDOWN
Vegetable product that could have made Cromwell unwell?	CORM
If you want fish, crack a nut!	TUNA
You need room to swing one	CAT
Fit as a seaman?	ABLE
Show no friendliness in distributing buns	SNUB
It allows a member a certain amount of flexibility	KNEE
It's a pity she's out for the morning	SHAME
Will he never quite make a leading man?	DANIEL
Plenty of painful punishment	LASHINGS
Coloured water?	REDSEA
If you want to be invited, apply to the Editor	ASKED
They're only partly seen as a danger to shipping	BERGS
Make the cocoa go round in jug?	STIR
Port, as in a bar, maybe	BASRA
Bernard, it seems, was upset about the hotel	SHAW
Blocks half of loch having unfortunately sunk	CHUNKS
Place of pride	LONDON
The cash I had for cover	LID
He may consider Macbeth unmentionable	ACTOR
Talk softly to Sir Simon	PRATTLE
Would he be the new leader?	BEN
Fault in the housing programme	SIN
Anybody on earth should be benevolent	HUMANE
Ah! Was taken in and nearly sunk!	AWASH
You may not remember having spent the night in one	COT
Expected to be outside the King's Head with a nobleman	DUE
Bottle broken by the RAF ace	CARAFE
Amount arranged for some asylum seekers?	SUM
She twice left little Beatrice out	BELLA
She mentions a letter to Annie, not Billy	NANNY
Could be a horse a bet's adapted for	BEAST
A touch of life, perhaps?	KISS
Thus a house is in one part of London	SOHO

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