May 12th 2023 - Evening Standard Cryptic

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May 12th 2023 Answers

Clue	Solution
So then ordered to shoot immediately	ONTHESPOT
By means of which something was removed from the vehicle	EXTRACTOR
Escorted to, all right	TOOK
Carrying a pie, when returning, and plates	STRATA
Increasing as the curtain is heralding the play's start	GOINGUP
Too exhausted to have thrown one's money about	OVERSPENT
Is among the speculators when the balloon goes up	THEORISES
On the carrying of guns, relents	SOFTENS
Decree otherwise and I fall out with	ORDAIN
From a quick look, say it's something small and hairy	PEKE
Made the mistake of having put leeches below the heart?	BLUNDERED
Thinks it ate with the peripheral teeth	COGITATES
Requests the dope to get hold of the back end	ASKS
The first two letters, by the way, are for overseas	ABROAD
A hole-in-the-corner sort of singer	CROONER
Put off by the explosive device, you decide	DETERMINE
Unhappy that one's shares are lowered in value?	DEPRESSED
Burning to join the marine band	SEARING
The supposition is that they are lined with gold	THEORY
Wolf you run away from	BOLT
Frightened as we merged with the traffic	AWESTRUCK
Not being a pro, getting soft with a rival	CONTENDER
With the bits left, is carrying on	PORTIONS
Fluky shot that won the golfer the game?	STROKEOFLUCK
Splashes those mixing it	SPATTERS
A channel without water, we're told	STRAIT
Started out in an action role	DEPARTED
So drunk it's amazing?	STAGGERING
Leaping about, parries the swords	RAPIERS
Have, beforehand, to impress favourably	PREPOSSESS
Capsized: by a gust in the river	TAGUS
Be careful! That's the boy-friend!	STEADY
A rum that has no match	ODD
Retract on having to sample food cooked from a personal recipe?	EATONESWORDS
Made a great effort and broke right in	STROVE
With the drink, bite on a biscuit	BRANDYSNAP
Starting off with a clean sheet after killing?	RUBBINGOUT
Ate this fish brought round in a covering of some kind	COD
Help themselves to too much when you pass	OVERTAKE
What the matador flourishes where, while leaping about	CAPERING
Flushed, at the beginning, a songbird	REDSTART
A performer and a first- rate performer all round	ARTISTE
Find, when you make a copy of	TRACE
Soak draught of animal medicine	DRENCH

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