Evening Standard Cryptic, December 8th 2020

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December 8th 2020 Answers

Clue	Solution
Could start to whip in a fight	CLASH
Poetry of the silver sea	VERSE
Hesitated to make a friendly gesture to a leftist	WAVERED
Being nice means very little, in a way	SWEET
Checks a broken siren	REINS
A rule that breaks the heart of singers	REIGN
Lazes around, that is, with sticky sweets	LOLLIES
Play for today, outwardly?	TOY
Top numbers, each unique	ONES
Wild moors, right on the map, dark and gloomy	MOROSE
Open up possibilities for Edwin	WIDEN
Sort of shirt for a slave, that's all	THELOT
Easily handled, thanks to me	TAME
She's less than motherly	HER
Incite riot about a Zionist leader named Kane	CITIZEN
Go round upsetting some strikers	SKIRT
It's goodbye to Dai, maybe, who's so backward	ADIOS
During the day, left a trainee to be idle	DALLY
Might she rush ahead with an operation?	SURGEON
Look exhausted and fall out of the ring	DROOP
He's in textiles	TERRY
As chancellor, Nigel made rules in advance	LAWSON
Toffs properly included among saints?	SWELLS
Derby, perhaps	HAT
Special occasions that help to make life testing	FETES
Come close to being governed no end badly?	VERGEON
Heavenly place, a noted haunt	EDEN
Emergency message about a theatre where Pele played	SANTOS
Right to issue pay	REMIT
In Ireland, a clumsy fellow, hot-headed	LOUTH
Bar the clever bit	LEVER
Stone is best - start to finish!	TOPAZ
The old-fashioned fellows abroad	YEMEN
The "Order of ---" could be "12 Down"	MERIT
Agitates to make artistic creations more lofty	WORKSUP
Perhaps a capital attempt at scoring	HEADER
In teas one may find an exotic infusion	TISANE
Fruit served in medium large portions	MEDLAR
Rocky locations good to manoeuvre cars round	CRAGS
Thus again is only fair	SOSO
Little Miss Morse?	DOT

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