Evening Standard Cryptic, December 23rd 2022

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December 23rd 2022 Answers

Clue	Solution
Understanding what the nod of the head means	AGREEMENT
Kind person who’s something of an oddity	CHARACTER
Nonsense! A hard drinker knocks it back	TOSH
Are in charge and get silver hair all round!	MANAGE
Entertainment with refreshments? And how!	ICESHOW
Hurried after, cold and humbled	CHASTENED
With figures about heart trouble tries to frighten	THREATENS
Gave heart, in the end, to the performers who felt unappreciated?	ENCORED
Rule that it’s gold and I prove to be wrong	ORDAIN
Stash away - with the exception of	SAVE
Given a power one felt affronted by	PRESENTED
Either fire or unload it	DISCHARGE
Are out to get the point they deserve	EARN
Considered taking action - myself included	DEEMED
Did it contribute to the snarling of the old-time traffic?	GROWLER
Legal proof that you’re the champion?	TITLEDEED
Seems irritated when one withdraws from the match	SCRATCHES
Gave the impression, as one left on the trip	TOOKOFF
Once it’s planted, does it shoot up?	ROCKET
Grasp the branch	TWIG
Stop a man with a packet coming from the supermarket	DETERGENT
Put a curb on the police, perhaps, or give them more power	REINFORCE
Tiny portion of a soft item	PARTICLE
How obvious it is the fortune-teller’s a fake?	CRYSTALCLEAR
Stayed to meander about. I went inside	REMAINED
Desert sand	STRAND
Took to be the done thing	ACCEPTED
As a hen would do when its henhouse had been demolished?	LAYINRUINS
Get a different route and means of access	GATEWAY
A lot of people got captured in it	CROWDSCENE
Laugh when he goes into the stand	TEHEE
Artist who was a convert?	TURNER
Not even rum!	ODD
Spring water	APRILSHOWERS
The route to the interior	THROAT
No shortage of work for the con-man?	PLENTYTODO
The far tree, felled subsequently	THEREAFTER
Served up, too	DID
Reduce speed, after a fashion	MODERATE
From where the flowers are, getting one a bloom	GARDENIA
No longer caring, decided not to keep the appointment	RESIGNED
Writing about Rome, I digress in the autobiography	MEMOIRS
The fish will be rising right away	TROUT
It’s safe to tie up	SECURE

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