October 16th 2017 - Evening Standard Cryptic

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October 16th 2017 Answers

Clue	Solution
Choose to read from the lectern	ELECT
Table used by a novice sailor?	ALTAR
Reason to go wrong in certain figures	LOGIC
Decoration added to a drinking place	BAR
Wherein to find art in hairdressing?	SALON
Soft part of a flower, imaginably pink	PANTHER
French town with ivy rambling round the church	VICHY
That woman's always contradicting him!	HER
From memory, say	RECITE
Growing sources of food and drink?	POPPIES
Can such a race be a bore?	DRAG
Trumpeter's name	PETE
Joined in needlework?	KNITTED
Wild caper with an abrupt end flat on the floor	CARPET
Over five less	OER
Is it among the less enterprising cities?	ESSEN
You'll get quickly to its North End	PRESTON
For one to get a broken leg, may be obtuse	ANGLE
Love of money	OOF
The kind of thread I sell for weaving	LISLE
Girls having the same name as old Indian coppers	ANNAS
Censure stonily	SLATE
Saintly restatement of the banal	ALBAN
A growth, maybe, in the porcine population	WARTHOG
One misleading you into returning by rail?	LIAR
They add spiciness to many amours	CLOVES
Medicine you can never quite get on tick	TONIC
A night in Scotland, not in Germany	NICHT
Colour of a sheet anchor?	TAN
Devilish tempting creature?	SERPENT
In the past, it meant ‘hip’	HEP
Quoted from an edict?	CITED
The old-fashioned chaps in the country	YEMEN
Renovate and put back in stock	RESTORE
Draw information from a letter to Mussolini	EDUCE
Piano music for duos	PAIRS
Character of anybody middle-class	PERSONA
Ken, backed up by Len, makes a shelter	KENNEL
Like a shirt off the peg?	TEE
Savoury jelly with some minced capsicum	ASPIC
Rings friends out East	PEALS
It's a long way, so fares are reduced!	SOFAR
Scheme to finish up with a fortune	PLOT
Quantity of plutonium	TON

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