May 4th 2023 - Evening Standard Cryptic

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May 4th 2023 Answers

Clue	Solution
A joint close at hand	WRIST
With whom Alan tours Birkenhead	ALBAN
Wader found in another one	HERON
Vehicle taking us on a secondary road	BUS
Can such a charge stick?	BATON
Such beer can give courage and a dizzy head	BOTTLED
A point that's sore, perhaps, will never be better	WORSE
You'll never get much gratitude from one	RAT
Is this piece a timepiece?	PERIOD
Big and growing, Edward lacks a way to enter the back door	REDWOOD
Not a good way to live	EVIL
Strong dislike of hotel tea, perhaps	HATE
A sound measure	DECIBEL
Able to run in the heat	MOLTEN
Black variety of rat	TAR
A letter opener, perhaps	STEAM
You can play it, a mere bagatelle	PINBALL
Once again figures as a keepsake	RELIC
Lawbreaker's tool?	AWL
Letter a deadhead may be late with	DELTA
She sang wildly about her sweetheart!	AGNES
Imaginably, a hunted animal	SNARK
An upper member's joint	ELBOW
What W. Slater became	WASTREL
Understand an article to be in red	READ
Revealed that one was in debt, on the quiet	SHOWED
Figure more centrally as a singer	TENOR
Less of a denial?	NOTSO
Except that retribution is far from complete	BUT
In the middle, we note that outside may be bent	BETWEEN
The accolade would be too much for him	LAD
Competitor a rail crash could dishearten?	RIVAL
They're of marginal significance	EDGES
Machiavellian figure in a doubtful topic	POLITIC
Periodic payments	TERMS
Raw beginner mistaking a file for a weapon!	RIFLE
In here, a container is typically green	HERBAGE
Lower cleric takes me in	DEMEAN
Refuse to allow to catch up?	BAN
It's different in Rotherhithe	OTHER
They're eaten up in the stratosphere	TARTS
In a narrow way, it applies to bowling	ALLEY
It gives vacationists pleasure around Pinner	PIER
A two-way growth of 'beard'	AWN

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