Evening Standard Cryptic, October 7th 2022

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October 7th 2022 Answers

Clue	Solution
The branch denuded, stops	LEAVESOFF
With love, then, one’s out to win	ONTHENOSE
Grasp the little branch	TWIG
Fight against the sleep one’s engulfed by	RESIST
Increase when a relation, Meg, wanders in	AUGMENT
Make into a drawer	MAGNETISE
Having lain crumpled right inside, from a minor fall	LIGHTRAIN
Let slip one had ceased to have anything to do with	DROPPED
Hut the retiring worker is accommodated in	SHANTY
Get hitched, we’re told, to a foreigner	THAI
Turned out again to have been rectified	REDRESSED
Position of control gained by the superior worker	UPPERHAND
Bordering on the miserly	NEAR
The royal quartet are about to put in an appearance	ARRIVE
Procrastinated, which is indeed unprofessional	DELAYED
Had hallucinations, as carpenters are wont to do	SAWTHINGS
If the tree is barren, it’s no good	FRUITLESS
More unhappy about the way you swagger and talk boastfully	BLUSTER
Though having examined carefully, had been cheated	CONNED
Get cooler, but don’t freeze!	STIR
The joker who helped you get the boot off?	LEGPULLER
The effect they have on cars is baffling	SILENCERS
Badly scheduled just for when you got the flu?	ILLTIMED
Being useless, but being quite unaware of it	HAVINGNOIDEA
With it, is there always romance in the air?	LOVEBIRD
The position is bad: treacherous conditions underfoot	OFFICE
After all, I scamper back to get something to eat	TORTILLA
A vertical ascent is, truly	STRAIGHTUP
Heavy wig they are adjusting	WEIGHTY
Didn’t forget: Confined to the home to look after	KEPTINMIND
Margaret getting a first love letter	OMEGA
Saw the good seed was scattered all about	ESPIED
Reputed, when I left, to be unhappy	SAD
A song and dance about the closeness	HEAVYWEATHER
A band concealed by the diminutive sleeve?	ARMLET
Reminds one, in an alarming sort of way?	RINGSABELL
Bound to top the list of fare in a Chinese restaurant	SPRINGROLL
Pronouncing the vowels in “exercise”	USE
If you’re lacking confidence, it’s not safe	INSECURE
Just two terribly?	DEUCEDLY
In misery, first goes into put some clothes on	DISTRESS
Gags and keeps in confinement	SHUTSUP
Having called, we’re told, had managed to extract from	WRUNG
In the end, delve about in	FINISH

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