August 14th 2020 - Evening Standard Cryptic

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August 14th 2020 Answers

Clue	Solution
Drying while you’re phoning	ONTHELINE
Better than, when it comes to barbering?	ACUTABOVE
Delighted to detect, you say	SENT
Said it’s a surface charm	APPEAL
After half an hour I send food round to feed	NOURISH
A miniature plane, perhaps	DWARFTREE
Sets straight on the subject of clothes	REDRESSES
On the day, dead annoyed about its being full of holes	RIDDLED
An animal and one dicky bird!	PIGEON
Decline to become enamoured of	FALL
Giving a guarantee, which is auspicious	PROMISING
Set off and left after the other three, we’re told	WENTFORTH
Moor by the river bank	TIER
Even though one has the odd bleat about it	ALBEIT
Is he grumbling about the old-fashioned transport?	GROWLER
With set ideas, going off to do some bird-watching?	HIDEBOUND
Is clearly irritated by and cancels	SCRATCHES
An advertisement from “15”?	LEAFLET
About a quarter recover? How surprising!	REALLY
Fool who will, given time, get sense	TWIT
An ally in one form or another	CLASSMATE
Pay my debts? Lay off!	DISCHARGE
Deem to be deliberate	CONSIDER
What happened when the flag was hoisted showing a flower?	STANDARDROSE
Smiled when the spider got me agitated	SIMPERED
The girl’s been stood up again and that’s tough	SEVERE
Speak ill of as “a ruddy awful paper”	BALLYRAG
Prepared the bed for sleeping in – didn’t like it	TURNEDDOWN
upcast and carrying an instrument, said hello	SALUTED
The old man, like myself, had so healthy an upbringing	METHUSELAH
Misses one most, being crazy about	OMITS
Brief one on how to be a substitute?	FILLIN
The girl who took your coat?	PEG
Spring water	APRILSHOWERS
Attempt to get the keys to the garrison	EFFORT
Like the shorts dirty from playing football?	PITCHBLACK
The salesman’s favourite words? I believe you!	ILLBUYTHAT
It is to the point, showing intelligence	WIT
Authorises at last the transplantation of the roses	ENDORSES
Left inside so germs spread, which is stupid	GORMLESS
As favours, prepared to keep in store, packaged	ROSETTES
“A terrible slob,” I add, “hard to get rid of”	ABOLISH
A drink before the play	DRAMA
Supports the defensive efforts	STANDS

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