May 19th 2017 - Evening Standard Cryptic

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May 19th 2017 Answers

Clue	Solution
Near in the clear - until tomorrow, that is!	OVERNIGHT
The train isn’t moving, or travelling	INTRANSIT
My pet duck	LOVE
Pearls from somewhere in London	STRAND
Make it longer? That is a disappointment	LETDOWN
Had altered the piece about the wren and tit flying in	REWRITTEN
On the subject of electricity - it’s happening again	RECURRENT
Getting late home through it, there’s no future in such a job	DEADEND
Does his cruelty make him unhappy at first?	SADIST
A lady-love in Oxford, perhaps	SHOE
Listens in for the true dummy run	REHEARSAL
With the litigant who turns up, unfriendly all round	DISPUTANT
Figure the time has come to name her	VERA
Made one get into the car	FORMED
Meandered about, but didn’t go right inside	STRAYED
Searched for when one fled, having stolen from	RANSACKED
Gave one’s views on the unrestricted sale of dogs	AIREDALES
What do I think of the vegetable? The stuffing’s good	OPINION
From choice, work? Not, I, silly!	OPTION
Having arrived an hour before	HERE
When you eat sprouts, what tells you they’re palatable	TASTEBUDS
Prudence that makes one buy food that won’t perish?	CANNINESS
Caught a real streamer - a cold that’s going round	COLLARED
A song and dance about the oppressiveness?	HEAVYWEATHER
Worried, tried to rouse people into action	AGITATED
Endeavour to get a wrench	STRAIN
Impeded by the deer - wild deer	HINDERED
In every price range, come what may	ATALLCOSTS
Beating that has an electrifying effect	BATTERY
Pay for your little luxury from the kiosk?	STANDTREAT
Stay by the sea	SHORE
Headgear for the snowman, with a white peak?	ICECAP
A note, only, and that’s unfinished	SOL
What made the bed collapse?	HEAVYSLEEPER
Set free, though really bad	PUTRID
Where those rocks that look like jagged teeth are?	RIVERMOUTH
Getting supplies in, ready for Santa	STOCKINGUP
Cheated in the return, too	DID
The Hatter residence?	MADHOUSE
Prevail over and turn us out to accommodate the doctor	SURMOUNT
Mete out something you could do without?	DISPENSE
Taxi I get hold of, in case	CABINET
They’re hard catches	NAILS
Join and chat desultorily with at first	ATTACH

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