December 14th 2018 - Evening Standard Cryptic

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December 14th 2018 Answers

Clue	Solution
The lifter of the lid gets a big surprise	EYEOPENER
Try to stave in, foolishly, but it’s ridiculous	TRAVESTY
He’s one who’s come to the fore	IVAN
It will make you laugh - and cry	SCREAM
Don’t accept there’s a diminution	DECLINE
Damage the vehicle, a sled, I then repair	VANDALISE
Happening to have spotted appropriating a number	SEVENTEEN
Assumes, when one is brought down by	SLIPSON
The party to beat all parties?	THRASH
The water was running when I came in	RAIN
Goes towards, when one earns on behalf of	MAKESFOR
Reinforcement for only the lock	BUTTRESS
Gather you’re to make the acquaintance of	MEET
Bearing a large damaged crate of wine	CLARET
Lively and cheerful, he’s playing a golf shot	CHIPPER
Tackled the problem when one spoke to	ADDRESSED
Within a spell, should be taken over	BOUGHTOUT
From the very beginning, is good at golf	SCRATCH
Prophecies are transmitted through it, but nothing clear-cut	ORACLE
Crest, you say, showing a dog	PEKE
Mentioned that the arbiter had been mistaken	REFERRED
Attacked for having been extravagant	LASHEDOUT
Thinks there are insects, live, flying around inside	BELIEVES
Get back in gear with difficulty	REGAIN
I can change into going out, after working	INACTION
All you need to fly a kite - it’s easy	BREEZE
To a terrible skinflint, how to make perfume go further	ATOMISER
Called on and was charged to enter?	PAIDAVISIT
Lights outside the house would be the answer	BEACONS
Are out? Blow!	STRIKE
Standing Nina up, taking Margaret out and proposing to	MEANING
You’re asking for it!	ANSWER
Fancy dropping in to get the picture!	IMAGE
As far as “the right height”	TOR
Coming back, sit beside a Greek author	AESOP
Anger of one put in the shade	WRAITH
The season’s quickly over and is not up to expectations	FALLSSHORT
Started to eat the morsel	BIT
I myself hold the ticket; it’s a deadlock	IMPASSE
The word does conjure up trees	REDWOODS
Stupid and having no prospect of success as a sleuth	CLUELESS
Goes back and enters into further negotiations	RETREATS
Paid for, as agreed upon	SETTLED
Dealt with the problem of the confounded rent?	DARNED
Yells right through the fights	BRAWLS
Go on incoherently about, in a state	OREGON

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