Evening Standard Cryptic, September 16th 2022

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September 16th 2022 Answers

Clue	Solution
Attacking - or trying to	HAVINGAGO
Bar with a thick inverted top and fragile bottom	TAFFRAIL
Tow back and charge	WARD
Bleach the article in question	WHITEN
The drunker the meaner	TIGHTER
The fruit file?	RASPBERRY
Open here with a song	OVERTHERE
Shed one saw the two novices hiding in	SPILLED
Is successful (in establishing a friendly relationship?)	GETSON
On which a caged bird would long to be?	PINE
Heads towards, which helps to bring about	MAKESFOR
Escort across to assume control	TAKEOVER
Grass that upsets ruminants	REED
An irritable “That’s how old port should look”	CRUSTY
Just say “Here’s how”, in French	COMMENT
Either locked up or executed	COMMITTED
Unwanted, enters for the strong man competition?	MUSCLESIN
A bookcase	SATCHEL
Point out the moral, as usual	NORMAL
Caught right in the trap, don’t look at all despondent	GRIN
Shielding the son one thinks the world of from adversities	REVERSES
The repast I prepare myself in my leisure hours	SPARETIME
For inner mechanisms, a full treatment	THEWORKS
Avoids, when skirting the green	AVERTS
Had made the grade, one understood	GATHERED
Line up your deserving	WORTHY
Refuse to cede and it’s beer all round	STANDOUT
Out of danger, if the telephone is incapable of receiving calls	OFFTHEHOOK
Fire off the gun in the boat	FRIGATE
“Not Much Left”: a strange title	LITTLE
Tidied up, as told to	ORDERED
Shut up and made oneself scarce	BOLTED
Fancy embracing in the picture!	IMAGE
The fish, kid, will be rising!	GAR
I remained when the maid left her	IRENE
At class, a pupil will be on best behaviour	FORMAL
An excellent start to the course	FIRSTCLASS
See if you can irritate	TRY
Give one the creeps wandering round, to be exact	PRECISE
See us running the man in - a foreigner	SUDANESE
Actors off from “Robinson Crusoe”?	CASTAWAY
Occupied in making a neat repair to a bad dent	TENANTED
Someone disembarking from the craft	LIGHTER
In substance, that’s what’s wrong	MATTER
Sam’s out hiding the gold in the marsh	MORASS
Rick will do everything possible	STRAIN

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