December 30th 2021 - Evening Standard Cryptic

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December 30th 2021 Answers

Clue	Solution
Bad melons can be serious!	SOLEMN
Preparation of meat with a fancy pasta rim	PASTRAMI
Moves nippily to recycle waste around the weekend	TWEAKS
Walker who uses a vehicle on the quiet	TRAMP
Bit of fun with a bird	LARK
Wild rose, presumably red	SORE
An engaging thing to do	HIRE
U-boat half sunk at Beachy Head	SUB
Taught soundly, albeit under stress	TAUT
Walk about a yard	STEP
Play group with an active use for a carthorse	ORCHESTRA
Worry about a guitar piece?	FRET
Flatten the ears, possibly	RASE
Little Rock	GIB
A river some tour a lot	URAL
Bitter or caustic when an account's only half paid	ACID
Chain letters?	MAIL
Took badly	STOLE
He had to accept a curtailed role	HAROLD
Excesses to which the middleman would never go	EXTREMES
One who profits from a flogging?	VENDOR
Marks one notices	SPOTS
One man's name for extra-large wheels	OSCAR
Produce work on credit!	CROP
Moving stair that makes a musical sound	SITAR
It's of growing significance in Wales	LEEK
Invent cosmetics?	MAKEUP
With an effort, gets a break in certain quarters	WRESTS
Pole's forename, familiarly?	ROD
Encountered engineers in the distance	METRE
Some funny alliteration taken word for word	LITERAL
It's said to preclude a hiss occurring during a hush	HUH
As viewed from the promenade, sitting next to Edward?	SEA
It's present in concrete	ACTUAL
A special pleasure some of the troops scoff at?	TREAT
Round part of a doorbell	ORB
Sarah, who heartens Rosalie	SAL
The last thing you expect to hear at a symphony concert	FINALE
Nothing but love	NIL
Jockey on contract?	RIDER
Letter or manuscript useful to gardeners	CORMS
To scatter seed around the end of autumn is stupid!	DENSE
A 'low key' frame of mind	MOOD
Person not free to start freshening up	SERF

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