December 4th 2020 - Evening Standard Cryptic

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December 4th 2020 Answers

Clue	Solution
Be peeved when the eels are put in the van	FEELSORE
Would you be sorry to find it in your garden?	RUE
The cockney was sick and the weather was wintry	HAILED
Marks it "Collectors' items"	STAMPS
What started the fire at sea?	LIGHTER
Puts the phonetic pronunciation of "idle"	LAYS
Be patient and share my burden	BEARWITHME
All, I bet, very worried	EVERYBIT
Toyed with or succumbed to the temptation to swindle	FIDDLED
On the roads does it cut in, half the time?	TAXI
Moves in with the chest, taking a little time off	INCHES
Came up to scratch as a roundsman?	DELIVEREDTHEGOODS
Drink after drink	CHASER
Someone drawing rank	TIER
Came blithely in like a breath of fresh air?	BREEZED
Unhappily, there's little in do-it-yourself	DISMALLY
To start with, regard as a duty	FIRSTWATCH
Drink and get fired	SHOT
Having putted round again, reached greater heights	TOWERED
Yell desperately on being locked inside, desolate	LONELY
Show always to back a certain number	REVEAL
In practice, Rod came round and wakened one up	USE
To put it briefly, not for the stupid	CONDENSE
A break for the others, full stop	RESTPERIOD
The best tree in the orchard	PLUM
Plan to be used with the person I have broken with	CONSPIRE
Why so terribly late coming in? That's rich!	WEALTHY
Suddenly believe you will get out of the tunnel?	SEETHELIGHT
Cutting it down to the one word "fat"	SHORTENING
Put in the wrong place and lose?	MISLAY
Gossamer thin? Excellent	VERYFINE
Scamp is unlike the others of his breed	ROGUE
Annoys one day after day going through the questions	RIDDLES
Go off and leave you thoroughly confused	ADDLE
From the new char poor Leo caught the disease	CHOLERA
Rotten in the role of the good-looking baddie?	PRETTYAWFUL
How much is known about the mysterious miniature?	VERYLITTLE
Surprised by there not being an address?	SPEECHLESS
Increase the number the bird is carrying	HEIGHTEN
How good, but rather frightening, the story was?	RATTLING
Make for, having miscued	PRODUCE
An affair that does have importance	MATTER
One of the services might	FORCE
Want to return home, having the key to get in	NEED

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