August 22nd 2017 - Evening Standard Cryptic

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August 22nd 2017 Answers

Clue	Solution
Scholarly use of a crib would upset most teachers	CHEAT
Is such a point pointless?	SILLY
Snookered, perhaps, by the chap at one end of the table?	BAULKED
Boastful of standing high?	PROUD
Ivy will do so after many a gin cocktail	CLING
Boy holding out heartlessly for ill-gotten gain	BOOTY
Toss an essayist a flower	LOBELIA
Did he deprive Charles of a cleaning lady?	LES
Still has to pay for the lowest share	OWES
Interfere with the French in the greatest degree	MOLEST
Not pretty clear?	PLAIN
As Chancellor, did he remedy a money shortage?	HEALEY
First name in space	YURI
Utter guess!	SAY
Cut the price of each pen	CHEAPEN
For a start, many take the tube back	DEBUT
A saintly seed, it seems, but it's animal!	STOAT
The shooting of some mosquitoes, it's said	SKEET
This marine mammal makes me a neat anagram	MANATEE
French ones are of consuming interest to Americans	FRIES
Part of the marquee next to the hotel	TENTH
Does being on the hill make it a high school?	HARROW
Is offensive in an article on public transport	ABUSES
Just a touch of quiet admiration	TAD
In Scotland, of course, everyone gets a portion of oats	ALLOA
The Caesarian bit?	SECTION
Busily denied	IDLY
Old weapons one cleans anew?	LANCES
Budding opera character (with a beard?)	BILLY
For some scholars, they're turbulent waters!	LOCHS
An arresting thing to say to a sailor?	BELAY
Allow to rise, as a remission	LETUP
Discolouration in satin	STAIN
Power of an aircraft at height	MIGHT
Many have been spent in Spain	PESETAS
A noted bloomer in springtime	EASTER
Is he strongly drawn as an American type?	YANKEE
Yet another broadcast about soil conditioner	REPEAT
Youngster making a bit of a name, possibly in Havana?	CUBAN
Woman a man may play, funnily enough	DAME
Horse trading clique?	SET

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