Evening Standard Cryptic, December 16th 2022

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December 16th 2022 Answers

Clue	Solution
Not getting a mite worried about it? Never!	ATNOTIME
Knock back, as usual	RAP
Smiling, I claim to be exploited	AMUSED
Rabbit the baby likes to have in its pram	RATTLE
Wild bear in an animal show	CABARET
Catch some in retreat	TRAP
When low on money, what to have for tea?	SHORTBREAD
Continues to make profits	PROCEEDS
Having come back, worked regularly at again	REPLIED
Vehicle returns at eleven	TAXI
When he leaves here at eleven, settle in	RESIDE
Rest that one, in all fairness, deserves?	THESLEEPOFTHEJUST
Don’t accept the parent’s taken to drink	PASSUP
Put, inside it, a love letter	IOTA
The long-suffering alto is having to change key in it	STOICAL
A girl imprisoned for having wasted money	MISSPENT
All second-hand? We’re used to that!	NOTHINGNEW
Catch on to a branch	TWIG
Unsheathe, to make one talk	DRAWOUT
Performing their number in it, do really well	THRIVE
Decree the road must be repaired in	ORDAIN
Came out on top, you say, in both halves	ONE
When the food is cooked, slipping off	NONSTICK
Affection you feel for someone you’re stuck on?	ATTACHMENT
Wolf in close up	BOLT
Quite big, but not immeasurably so	SIZEABLE
Stretched out in the shade, long to	REACHED
Apt to take for one’s own use	APPROPRIATE
After this, my teaching days are over, my sweet!	LASTCOURSE
Seem busy making attire for the period piece	BUSTLE
Seen to be highly thought of	REGARDED
Mad to free the imprisoned sailor	RABID
Seen in seas so rough they make your hair curl?	ROLLERS
Around a round	ABOUT
Going off to get a coin to telephone	SOURING
Squabble with, when you queue up?	GETINTOAROW
Seeing what you have to say for youself	LIPREADING
China has a problem with depravity	TEASERVICE
Are we prepared to sit in for, so to speak?	ASITWERE
In giving a garbled version of, is cheating	TWISTING
Saying there’s a metal animal outside it	STATING
A remarkable cue	SIGNAL
One’s to squeeze the ring into the loop	NOOSE
Nonsense! Light up!	RATS

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