December 17th 2021 - Evening Standard Cryptic

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December 17th 2021 Answers

Clue	Solution
Not the twit who's thin on top?	FATHEAD
Why the hard-bitten crook gave himself up?	POLICEDOG
Time to turn in, the soldier reveals	EIGHT
Get the letter off	ERASE
Run back to find people trapped in agony	TORMENT
Adds to the contents of the jug	ARRESTS
Was wobbly from the second blow	SHOOK
The cry of an animal, though you say no	NEIGH
Run right into the chopper, turning	EXTRA
Concealed a number in the latter half	LATENT
Many, since, having been badly affected by cuts	MINCES
The biggest exam, everybody will enter for	TALLEST
Said "Awful racket outside" with scorn	DISDAIN
An obvious attempt to discourage imitators	PATENT
Conclude it's a coating of some kind	FINISH
Tips from people who are not to be trusted	HEELS
Give the last ball-point to	ENDOW
Rule out the hundred in cash	LUCRE
Three meals a day and money you don't have to work for	PENSION
So see first the performer	SOLOIST
Following behind the Queen	AFTER
Stop in the shade, terribly hot	DETER
Experience, when you rehearse	GOTHROUGH
He'll wait until the trip is over	STEWARD
Someone noisily closing the door of the old car?	BANGER
What I see floating in a great expanse of water	WHITESEA
Created excitement when one dived off the bridge into the river?	MADEASPLASH
Change your mind when you regain consciousness	COMEROUND
Wrongly accept to be an accident	MISTAKE
Don't forget to carry inside and look after	BEARINMIND
Produced, to make the hole with	BORE
Tell you it's right and make you very happy	RELATE
Bets the dope has been swallowed by the dogs	BASSETS
Is keen to get the building site surrounding the church	ITCHES
Tend to stoop	INCLINE
Drank to get warm	TOASTED
In which, drunk on the hard stuff, one's very merry	HIGHSPIRITS
To give it significance, at the end we land outside	LENDWEIGHT
Empty the sack	DISCHARGE
"Strived" is wrong, but it does amuse one	DIVERTS
If you don't mind listening to excuses	PLEASE
Not voting to give to one's successors	HANDDOWN
The Scottish leader is given access by the guard	SENTRY
He eats a lot - too much, putting weight on	GLUTTON
One by one forming part of the act	INTURN
See, all right, when you open your eyes	LOOK

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