Evening Standard Cryptic, August 15th 2017

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August 15th 2017 Answers

Clue	Solution
He's so wrong to go by car!	OSCAR
It's nothing for a party leader to snoop around, being silly	SOPPY
Set up (like a police force?)	MOUNTED
Finished in German style	KAPUT
Match opposition	RIVAL
Do something original	BEGIN
One girl distressed in 'King Lear'	GONERIL
When it's wrong, don't stand for it!	SIT
Like some old stage door Johnnies	AGED
Something to eat before breakfast	SUPPER
Those enjoying a fling at the dance?	SCOTS
Talk a lot about a quiet part of the river	PREACH
An upright position	POST
Desirable title?	SIR
Story of love in Carmen's wild embrace	ROMANCE
Like a family with two boys	ROYAL
Swimming school	SHOAL
It moves sluggishly	SNAIL
Where Arthur arrived with money to return?	CAMELOT
Command of knighthood?	ORDER
Introduce an American loveless hero	USHER
Sailor whose pet needs a lot of water?	SEADOG
Made us shake with laughter?	AMUSED
A little nonsense to hearten one's betrothed?	ROT
Spirit of a strange land	ANGEL
Rosie's upset over us being earnest	SERIOUS
The brooding god?	ODIN
I chatter about a potato	PRATIE
A striking tree?	BIRCH
Talk about an MP having a number of brollies	GAMPS
Perpetual discouragement	NEVER
Kiss and cuddle with a boy outside the office	SPOON
A rhyme? Quite - but it's hackneyed	TRITE
Seat for the school head, also a pupil	STOOL
Studious composer of carols about Holyhead	SCHOLAR
It's right, I see, for her to be better off	RICHER
Colourful line in underwear	PAINTS
Writer needing copy in more ways than one	SCRIBE
Animal in later form	RATEL
Tribe integrated into the Saracens	RACE
Sue, we hear, for a bit of money	SOU

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