December 31st 2021 - Evening Standard Cryptic

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December 31st 2021 Answers

Clue	Solution
It makes one itch to atone for one's misbehaviour	HAIRSHIRT
Travelling by train, for a change. Isn't flying	INTRANSIT
Having, at one point, a smash hit	WITH
Happen to be getting the drop on	BEFALL
How you said "I paid a thousand dollars for it"?	GRANDLY
The way in which management is heading?	DIRECTION
Not the same fellows I rented out accommodation to	DIFFERENT
From the container, get a strange looking soup	POTTAGE
A number vamoose, or split	CLEAVE
It takes a month to get round the county	MAYO
Don't understand why you turn a blind eye to	FAILTOSEE
Spot something in the jeweller's window	CARBUNCLE
Too much to get on top of	OVER
At least four supports	BRACES
Who was summoned when the customer wrote a bad cheque?	BOUNCER
Terribly anti about, as a fellow Australian	TASMANIAN
Picking up a hoop for the others to go through	ARRESTING
It's water for the irises? Nonsense!	EYEWASH
Gets from with difficulty, as the previous wife does	EXACTS
A girl to avoid	MISS
Fascinated by how one plotted	INTRIGUED
At home I have the fireplace to blacken	DENIGRATE
Could clearly be seen to have arrived	SHOWEDUP
Fighting in an ale bar?	BITTERSTRIFE
Find sage to your taste? Ditto!	LIKEWISE
Air pressure	STRAIN
Get out the gold pieces stuck inside, somehow	DISLODGE
Temperature one has to act quickly to reduce?	STAGEFEVER
Contrived to get the old fellow to go ahead	MANAGED
Not one of those outgoing types?	STAYATHOME
Left inside edge	SIDLE
Call round a little afterwards, being sly	CRAFTY
Rod is a character, by all accounts	CUE
Does he stoop to all kinds of villainy?	ARCHCRIMINAL
The lines of letters, read aloud	QUEUES
To go by appearances, is looked down on	FROMTHEAIR
A vertical take off - honest!	STRAIGHTUP
Island houses	COS
Claims one is argumentative	CONTENDS
Is it lunchtime at the pub that he sings?	BARITONE
Show by your expression, when you enter	REGISTER
Embracing the boy, the girl got the fever	MALARIA
A little way out, but delightful	SWEET
It's terribly sad about the war medals	AWARDS

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