August 27th 2019 - Independent Uk Cryptic

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August 27th 2019 Answers

Clue	Solution
Give a hack gin cocktail for confessing to a crime	COUGHING
Rating little Elizabeth as a superior officer	ABBESS
Maybe jousted say for a couple of weeks?	FORTNIGHT
Joint firsts in race on athletics speed track	ROAST
E.g. write on headstone, a small space, solemnly	ENGRAVE
Who is missing out on Oscar according to rumour?	WHISPER
Setter’s devious ways	STREETS
The head abandons certain parents - and the rest	OTHERS
He ridicules how ordinary man’s entitled to snort dodgy coke	MOCKER
Tabloid paper caught out in debauchery - Public Relations brought in	EXPRESS
A number leaving jazzy clarinet concert	RECITAL
Standing miserably wet in body of water is a bit simple	LOWTECH
Brought over some Frappuccinos and a tea	CUPPA
Turkey’s extra bit of duty extracted in customs	TRADITION
Remarking Henry’s fallen out of love	NOTING
They don’t believe article penned by RA as a group right away	ATHEISTS
Small firm following price charged for alternative to 28?	COFFEE
Respectable puritan's hot in Utah	UPRIGHT
Will S’s wife come round for some hair dye?	HENNA
Doesn’t care for stormy glens etc	NEGLECTS
Inn frequenter and pub Romeo tries to get drunk	BARRISTER
A role model, previously rather bulky	EXAMPLE
Such a one sends up stars - I might explode with it	SATIRIST
Ipswich perhaps draw - Norwich at the top	TOWN
Tired of looking?	EYESTRAIN
Continental 1D left unfinished	AMERICAN
Sent a late letter last month carried by worker for 7	EXULTANT
Pick bananas in bed where F1 ones might be found	COCKPIT
A particular type of critter that is kept in glasses	SPECIES
Unexciting accommodation	FLAT
Trousers coming from Far East in first place and then Sweden	CHINOS
Setter and solvers drinking punch and Chablis?	WHITE

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