May 17th 2023 - Evening Standard Cryptic

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May 17th 2023 Answers

Clue	Solution
Tangled with the boys	MATTED
More than ready	OVERRIPE
He's defensive about the question of clean sheets	GOALIE
Soldiers' poor return on middling investments	TROOP
Applies to fingerprints	DABS
French cape?	HORN
At midnight, a person has left	GONE
One container of a number?	BOX
Land of piranhas	IRAN
Restrain a broken-hearted friend?	REIN
Hardly a home for a drifter!	HOUSEBOAT
Historically, people to shun?	HUNS
The mob will go north of the border	GANG
To a leader of men, possibly Mr Jones	TOM
Sort of singing to get the cats jiving?	SCAT
He nobly offers choice between pounds and old pence!	LORD
It might need timely exposure to sunlight	DIAL
The price of thoughtfulness?	PENNY
Fail foolishly to accept the current beauty treatment	FACIAL
Poet's fondness for fine fabric	LOVELACE
Bets one accepts at one's wits' end?	STAKES
The way to build huts around a circle	SOUTH
Sort of sax for singer?	TENOR
Seize an item of luggage	GRIP
She's good in an average case	MEGAN
Leaves for the mysterious East	TEAS
Is done differently by an inventor	EDISON
Order a chap to be king of the fairies!	OBERON
Pull the boat into line?	ROW
Bulb with a line on both sides!	ONION
Irish lad gone wrong	DONEGAL
Might it arise from smouldering ashes?	GAS
The part between one's teeth?	BIT
Where the American may appear in a sari?	RUSSIA
Bird confined to earth by a wild gale?	EAGLE
Sing a Hummel piece	HUM
Take a knock	BAT
Australian town house for a titled person	HOBART
Superior naval vessel?	URN
Shouts on the phone?	CALLS
Back number possibly apt to be freely available	ONTAP
Where an eddy swirls around Flamborough Head!	DYFED
A detective inspector - also a half back?	DICK
Look sound?	PEEP

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