Evening Standard Cryptic Crossword Puzzle Answers on May 31st 2017

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May 31st 2017 Answers

Clue	Solution
A nautical lad will provide that extra piquancy	SEASON
When finished, take a quick look	ONCEOVER
To this, did Smollett show favouritism?	BIAS
Seem offended because British Rail's not working?	BRIDLE
He's capable of a nice contribution to public relations	PRINCE
From here, there's a fair way to drive	TEE
A podgy little chap can still have such charm!	FATAL
Reduced crew on a royal vessel	EWER
Started to appeal for some funds	BEGUN
It goes to the wall in a big way	MURAL
Females targeted along with a friend!	AUNTS
Try to systematise some of the housekeeping	SEEK
A foundation, as exists at Birkenhead	BASIS
On which to rest the bottom?	BED
Where, in Ireland, one gets a haircut	ANTRIM
Cosmeticised inventively?	MADEUP
One managed to find it on the map	IRAN
Quotations to scatter wildly around when you get cross?	EXTRACTS
Joint holder	SKEWER
Sore about a bachelor being drab	SOMBRE
Silk producer	SPIDER
One knows the sound of it being blown	NOSE
Afraid of getting a loud, lengthy rebuke	FEARFUL
A woman's not loveless, as it happens	EVENT
There's a sporting chance it has fishy contents	CREEL
The bit on the end is a mere morsel	BITE
Adam's is alcohol free	ALE
Is he of Caledonian extraction?	IAN
Not a useless object	CAUSE
Accommodation for a chap at a hotel	BERTH
Source of endless woe to her husband?	WOMAN
Food item that can go to a woman's head?	BUN
Too much talk, as at the Aldgate centre	GAS
To sum up, I see a novice in a show	MUSICAL
The bairn evidently has wind	AIR
Tipsily teased for being sober	SEDATE
This lovely place even includes Land's End	EDEN
Did smoking make it sleepy?	KIPPER
Revealed a matted beard	BARED
Miss Del or Cal, say, or maybe Mo?	STATE
Piece of music in the pub?	BAR
Does it not strike you as a stately abbreviation?	MISS

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