June 18th 2018 - Evening Standard Cryptic

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June 18th 2018 Answers

Clue	Solution
Might it make a poker player affluent?	FLUSH
No longer hired as a woodman	FIRED
Informal (and informative?) entertainment	TELLY
Good when used for cooking	GAS
Refers to punishment that finishes men in the ring	PENAL
Garments for show?	JUMPERS
Curse that combination bottle opener and salt shaker!	BLAST
Unit of nuclear energy?	ARE
If duller, a gloss finish is poorer	SLOWER
Hairy, but not necessarily dangerous	HIRSUTE
We have a right to deteriorate	WEAR
Could have been spent in old Ireland	PUNT
Recover or obtain properly	GETWELL
She romps, but doesn't exactly toy with a lad	TOMBOY
Also called "each way"	AKA
Sober, but said to be out to start trouble	STAID
The payload can be something alarming, out East	FREIGHT
To one fellow, looked in harmony	TONED
Born in a bygone era	NEE
Moisten a garden plot two ways	BEDEW
Easily grasped by many a listener	CLEAR
A hunted creature, one imagines	SNARK
Produce by spadework?	DIGUP
Be hopeless at naming twins	DESPAIR
Lives heartlessly by deception	LIES
Steady but, being old, about to start badly	STABLE
A greeting for one you hadn't expected?	HELLO
Friendly with Glenn?	CLOSE
Somewhat up-market animal?	RAM
Did this star show inquisitiveness about stewed eels?	PRESLEY
To growl at an egghead is the wrong thing to do	ERR
Terrible flaw in staggering round the bend	AWFUL
Honesty in a letter to a girl	TRUTH
Might he be wasted outright?	STEWARD
Being smart, strikes!	SWATS
As played by Hank and a master?	HALMA
Play around in Leatherhead, obviously	PLAINLY
Work for the county and get demoted	GODOWN
Make to last less than a weekend	EKE
As a bit of a rotter, may be hounded	OTTER
But they don't hurt the angler	BITES
A bad peach is of little worth	CHEAP
Be afraid of a noisy lug	FEAR
Could you whiz after it with an excited cry?	GEE

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