Evening Standard Cryptic, August 20th 2018

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August 20th 2018 Answers

Clue	Solution
Large box capable of expansion	CHEST
Could it describe a quarter of tongue?	LATIN
Something noteworthy to sit down and play	CELLO
Mountain pass in Monaco, likely enough	COL
Land of lacquer	JAPAN
As a work of art, would be said to be incisive	WOODCUT
Heavy reading?	TOMES
The odd drink	RUM
Lying in order to obtain treats	ATREST
Irascible but not tasteless	PEPPERY
Top in the administrative department	HEAD
In bed, a pretty little thing	BEAD
It's touchingly read	BRAILLE
Dodges work so as to figure in celestial spheres?	SKIVES
Compete to get a girl for a sweetheart	VIE
Being very close, he may move to Reims	MISER
Location, near Hackney, of Gladstone's change of heart	DALSTON
An orange is a non-starter with minced veal!	NAVEL
Pitiable as some narcotics addicts	SAD
Are such friends apt to be drunk?	STOUT
Revolting fellow's late start after swilling beer	REBEL
Pass as new verse	SERVE
He took a taxi back and forth	BACON
She's no rabid leftist!	MILDRED
Passion of a theatrical nature	HEAT
It's silly to put a cat where a pig ought to be	SCATTY
Singer of only one sound note?	TENOR
Sadness at Chelsea	BLUES
Excessively, as it seems to Oscar	TOO
Garments for show in a horsy world?	JUMPERS
Recuperative drink?	CUP
Confusion of combatants	MELEE
Brown maybe, but there's one in Scarlet	STUDY
The advent of a hard-hearted competitor	ARRIVAL
In outer Clapham, there needs to be an open space	CHASM
Where dad's on the right island (in the Seine?)	PARIS
Euphemistically cursed!	BLESSED
To live, to judge, and to scold	BERATE
She matches up	LIL
Is she too young to be catty?	KITTY
One imagines she's out of this world	VENUS
She has just the figure for fashion	MODEL
It fuels some of the older vehicles	DERV
Plane spotters may see one on the wing	TAB

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