April 24th 2023 - Evening Standard Cryptic

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April 24th 2023 Answers

Clue	Solution
Those all pulled out with arresting effect?	STOPS
A well balanced game	MATCH
The realistic viewer has no such illusions!	OPTICAL
Without a happy woman, the thing doesn't work	NOJOY
Bird-like fielder?	GULLY
Many a target will make demands	CLAIM
Money going inland?	REVENUE
Catch coming back from the bank	NAB
Water with a pronounced odour	ODER
Ridicule makes one stare wildly around!	SATIRE
A basis for footwork	PEDAL
Was rude to a busman!	ABUSED
Carry a note into a bar	BEAR
Harlesden boy?	LES
Put down by a puzzler?	FLOORED
She takes as much as she can hold on the Fourth of July	FILLY
This subject comes first, I see	TOPIC
Secondary highway, but wide	BROAD
An old-fashined rotter	DASTARD
Men consume half a loaf with fruit	MELON
It grows shaky when there's a wind	ASPEN
The flute player did so also, Edward	TOOTED
It's worse when the rope tangles round the back of tractor	POORER
Look soppy without work	SPY
A passage in Paisley	AISLE
Even without Al, it would still be wonderful	MAGICAL
Almost a lump of chemical	ALUM
Low place where some fellows go in a car	CELLAR
No longer terribly crude?	CURED
Sort of jelly for boys	ROYAL
The Romans imagined her to be heavenly	VENUS
Cold-hearted but getting better	NICER
Hirsute poet out East	BEARD
She wants, say, about fifty quid	SALLY
A flier ("Big Bill") to help you across the road	PELICAN
Earlier, minced beef containing a certain amount of pork	BEFORE
Stays on the stage?	BOARDS
Give the water treatment	AERATE
Loud musical instrument?	FLUTE
If upset, act like a dog!	FIDO
Big-headed artist many women have a use for	BRA

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