Evening Standard Cryptic, December 17th 2019

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December 17th 2019 Answers

Clue	Solution
Cutlery item for which a bird gets a bill	SPOON
For which you need a partner in attendance?	DANCE
Can tire badly, to be sure	CERTAIN
Bill is in this, maybe as tenor	VOICE
Virginia is just about sick of the house!	VILLA
It goes round in loops	SPOOL
Makes loud noises like puffers	BELLOWS
A serviceable stopper	BUS
Issue the time to return	EMIT
Take a small measure, note, before a larger one	ACCEPT
One player's remark ignored by others	ASIDE
Bad smell of fish at Spithead	STENCH
If returning twice to get the girl	FIFI
Sailor found among vegetarians	TAR
Had he skill in bridge?	SPARTAN
A youngster takes it to be an outdated measure	CUBIT
Agents getting food at the Saracen's Head	SPIES
Old writer never without a plot	PLATO
Pointed outcome of medical research	DECIMAL
Around the end of June, Fred was released	FREED
They change colour	DYERS
Abbreviated just for now	PROTEM
Secretive lout thrown out of the cricket club	OCCULT
French born	NEE
You can take them up a ladder	STEPS
Something unionists don't believe in?	DIVORCE
Vanilla extract with colourful possibilities	ANIL
Ring some reservists?	CALLUP
Social leader with desire to be fashionable	SWISH
For an animal, one has the finest around	BEAST
Brown is a survivor	LIVER
Keep in shape so as to suit?	BEFIT
The beer drinker may take it in hand	STEIN
Take up, when likely to be out of the party	ADOPT
Account number used or charged	ACCUSED
Interfere with the packer?	TAMPER
Pretty sick, being among the lesser swimmers	FRILLY
Quicker to make a fatheaded bloomer	FASTER
Join the session when there's something wrong about it	SITIN
Grant an unprecedented share	CEDE
Go softly, as when pussyfooting	PAD

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