March 23rd 2023 - Evening Standard Cryptic

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March 23rd 2023 Answers

Clue	Solution
Smooth, yes, but you don't want all that oil!	SLICK
You can paddle it back again	KAYAK
Does he re-style his hair a lot?	HIRAM
Drink nothing during the race	TOT
When the wrong pair gets left?	APRIL
Have a fling with a bit of a smile and a laugh	CHUCKLE
Biblical water baby	MOSES
Recently stolen or cooked	HOT
Uncle has to see about this plant	SESAME
A traveller consumes the same thing again and again	REPEATS
Spicy samosa is too much for him	AMOS
Possible opposite of 'hen'	STAG
They're vegetable, and one may be found in pies	PEONIES
Hush due to what was revealed?	SHOWED
Initial music makers	CDS
Giant canned potato centre	TITAN
Complete failures if treated as lettuce	FIASCOS
Pest that means trouble to the Poles	SNAIL
It's atomic, as in nuclear fission	ION
A writing surface to put the tick on	SLATE
Problem in composing prose	POSER
Borders formed of sedge	EDGES
In short, figure work	MATHS
Guards the hunters, perhaps	WATCHES
Not all antelope run easily	LOPE
Rings for the Dickens book	CHIMES
They weigh nothing wrapped up in silk!	KILOS
Where the witches cooked meals?	SALEM
Anybody but me?	YOU
Related in a different style	ALTERED
Hill, it seems, gets only half a kopek	KOP
Smelling them can be stimulating	SALTS
Name of a lesser genius	SERGE
Print something penetratively	STENCIL
It was possibly waspish	WAIST
Unemotionally, will he root out a blockhead?	ROBOT
You can only have one at a sitting	SESSION
Enclosed duplicated letters in deep mystery	PENNED
Friday's girl	IDA
Being very old, they make complaints at Southend	HILLS
This desert used to be part of Texas	WASTE
Those crossed by jolly Roger?	BONES
Computerised record of a turbulent life?	FILE
Because of fast talk!	COS

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