Evening Standard Cryptic, December 21st 2022

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December 21st 2022 Answers

Clue	Solution
Wild praise for the old country	PERSIA
The Forces clergyman had been lying	CHAPLAIN
The majority are stray toms	MOST
Whereon the first or last of the skiers moves easily	SLOPES
Sausages shared by Sarah and a friend	SALAMI
Rest in position	SIT
Again fixed the engineers' radio	RESET
Do a cleaning job for gold, perhaps	DUST
Meant to become a painter	MANET
Hold out a key that's damaged	HOLED
Leave to get work in a successful show	HOPIT
Self-possessed, albeit out of control	COOL
Comic feature that's a take-off?	STRIP
Food for dad and the coppers	PAP
Angry when the chap broke a date	HEATED
Struck by the way Morse was sent out?	TAPPED
A voice of phenomenal tone	ALTO
Growing reasons for settling out of court?	CACTUSES
Where pupils are taught how to get out of a Rolls?	HARROW
I posed suitably in balance	POISED
Words used in making an arrest	STOPIT
In plays, the cast can vary	ACTS
A listener rushed out, transfixed!	SPEARED
Standard Anglo-Saxon soldiers?	PARAS
Not able to remove an attachment?	UNFIT
There's nothing in manuscripts of botanical interest	MOSS
A determined group of people	SET
Enable to show a bit of subtlety	LET
European underground line that gets me to Rome	METRO
Virginia takes cover - as is logical	VALID
Join in less than a minute, maybe	UNITE
Do a shock clean-up job?	MOP
Can such a profit be fishy?	NET
Optimistic about a flight on the wrong fuel	HOPEFUL
Make hard contact with the thing in question	HIT
An officer or one who has taken a prisoner	CAPTOR
The pal in –palindrome”?	OPPO
Shropshire town with an old part renewed	LUDLOW
Primitive accommodation for hacks?	SHACK
Whence the hands managed to get to church?	RANCH
Outwardly paternal associate?	PAL
New hats as worn by men	TASH

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