Evening Standard Cryptic, August 14th 2017

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August 14th 2017 Answers

Clue	Solution
They eat fish and are said to use skewers	SKUAS
In a fearful state, father's not quite nice	PANIC
Though notedly valuable, not the complete instrument	STRAD
In parenthesis, an assurance of correctness	SIC
Slow passage with many a wrong note	LENTO
Feeble fellow who extracts benefits at work?	MILKSOP
Rushes around causing a scare	RACES
A name for the French window, initially	LEW
Roman god who was enthroned on a vessel	SATURN
A climbing aid, naturally	TENDRIL
Central line	AXIS
The point is, it's a blemish	MARK
Where the Dons could be out to win?	SWINDON
Archibald Joseph, whose novels were expertly doctored	CRONIN
Put down some mousetraps	SET
To a brave man, a bit of fun with a bird	HERON
Royal advocate of baby sharing?	SOLOMON
Could it put flavour into macaroni, once?	ONION
Desert from the regiment when trouble starts	RAT
Only near the finish?	CLOSE
The problem about public transport	REBUS
Wrong outcome of a trial?	ERROR
Bachelors, I see, are pretty fundamental	BASIC
Preserves the best for the French	PICKLES
What the castle defenders would not allow captured	KEEP
Do stars have such bodies?	ASTRAL
The little beast couldn't really make toast!	STOAT
Be in a car at the Highland games	CABER
The penniless have nothing	NIL
Very basic information?	LOWDOWN
Points shown by a nurse?	SEN
Bit of canned rhubarb from Havana, say	CUBAN
Smooth mover with a nice skin	SNAKE
Joins up in order to sing some songs?	SIGNSON
Hunter, maybe	WATCH
Baltimore's island?	TIMOR
Drove Ted Moor crazy!	MOTORED
Offender getting faultless service out of a pub	SINNER
Boy led astray	DEL
Staggers, giving drunken leers	REELS
Loop or ring in the nose	NOOSE
To put, perhaps , or add	TOTUP
Thus has a house somewhere in London	SOHO
To many a sailor, a queen	MAB

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