October 27th 2017 - Evening Standard Cryptic

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October 27th 2017 Answers

Clue	Solution
Famous restaurant fully booked?	NOTABLE
Great fun setting the pinto loose from the pen	BALLPOINT
It gives you a head start	AITCH
The things one’s bumped into backing in	ITEMS
Someone stealing something from the nursery	CREEPER
The rot’s set in the containers - boxes	CARTONS
Caught through the enticement of money	LUCRE
When there’s no turning back, prepared for attack	ONSET
“Piece” not “peace”	SCRAP
Not all square and knobbly	UNEVEN
Straighten up and relax	UNBEND
As a herbivore, mistake for a flower	COWSLIP
A job for the fielder on the on side?	LEGWORK
Thought it’s not on to trap one!	NOTION
Yelled at when in the way again	ROARED
Hell, now he’s coming round!	HADES
About the rings and how many there are	THREE
Urge to recruit willy-nilly	PRESS
Free from, when outside	WITHOUT
To lie back always contains, or will alleviate, the pain	RELIEVE
Lifting device that’s one among many	HOIST
After you’ve entered, change your mind and cancel	ERASE
On condition that I’d be establishing the truth about	PROVIDING
I don’t worry about being in charge of elocution	DICTION
A bill from the stationer	POSTER
The jumbo-sized cake beside the sponge?	BATHSOAP
Not much to look at, dim and downright silly	PLAINSTUPID
Managed to get fired for having made the search	RANSACKED
Want, when in the money, to ease off	SLACKEN
Learn, when you gain consciousness and recognise	COMETOKNOW
It’s well worth buying up the brooches	SNIP
Opens up and cleans out	LANCES
Returned the material fabricated	REPLIED
The note to the trade union was harsh	GRATED
About to bring in the horse, as directed	STEERED
A bird table with a hole in it	ROOSTER
Start on that job in some lowly position?	GETDOWNTOIT
Break away from the vessel	SHORELEAVE
Performing a hit song myself in it - I’m not saying what	SOMETHING
For a number of cars, it might be going too far	DRASTIC
Mother took a turn, going all wobbly at one point	NATURE
Struck the other differently up to now	HITHERTO
Dolly the child needs to have when the parents are out	SITTER
Adds that pads will be strewn around to write in	APPENDS
Roar out to bring in the speaker	ORATOR
For a high-flier, it’s fun	LARK

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