December 21st 2018 - Evening Standard Cryptic

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December 21st 2018 Answers

Clue	Solution
Convinced it's inevitable	CERTAIN
A fat insect?	BUTTERFLY
Revolted, had left one's seat	RISEN
Move the teeniest bit	TOUCH
Best satisfied when they fall sharply	PLUMMET
Suppress the anti - anti is wrong	CONTAIN
A quarrel when you take the new car for a drive	RUNIN
Something you wear because you've always worn it?	HABIT
Not happy about, we gave the chop to	SAWED
Off one rushed, to the police	RANCID
The language could be French	POLISH
Drawing a box with a hole in it	CARTOON
Play the part of the harbourman	PORTRAY
He's on the watch for the Second Coming	SENTRY
Show a film about partition?	SCREEN
Has Dante heartlessly put into the inferno	HADES
Could be Mr Right	TITLE
Declaim, though having nothing to complain about	ORATE
Why we don't remember the men who struggled in Asia?	AMNESIA
A fight in the car ahead	FORWARD
Tea at home, or one of the many restaurants?	CHAIN
A well-known name in textile	SERGE
Plan that makes a surprise start to a rough game	STRATAGEM
Reading through "America At Large"	PERUSAL
Period in which the main issue appears	SEASON
Level with the post	STANDARD
Where you had a trying time while shopping?	FITTINGROOM
It's true the aunt passed away at ninety-nine	AUTHENTIC
It's wrong to hang on to someone's pay	STIPEND
Emphasised that it had been published	BROUGHTOUT
For "15", the top of the tree	PLUM
Jokes that create rifts	CRACKS
For the present, having electricity	CURRENT
Try to get the rent together, but it's a pain!	STITCH
He robs from the ship as well	BRIGAND
Won't bother about the hat stand with shelves	WHATNOT
Does it spray ink all over the place?	FOUNTAINPEN
Averted one's gaze from, when refused admittance	TURNEDAWAY
When the cars crashed, got bad chest abrasions	SCRATCHES
Leaves out the R in "divers"	SEVERAL
Leave the TV unplugged	SETOFF
Distributes about a thousand	HANDSOUT
Has been worried, you know, and agitated	SHAKEN
Gosh! A mug for the drink!	CORDIAL
Yell "Be off!" grabbing the key	SCREAM
Spoil a table	ROTA

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