Evening Standard Cryptic Crossword Puzzle Answers on September 5th 2017

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September 5th 2017 Answers

Clue	Solution
Displace some workers	SHIFT
One fat-headed rugby forward, or a group	FLOCK
Atherton starts with one and continues with another	ARTICLE
Fame of that old American flag	GLORY
In spirit, a new angle	ANGEL
Hires some cots for some children	RENTS
Possibly a rambler's potential bloomer	ROSEBUD
Seat of the devotions?	PEW
Has to be drifting snow	OWNS
The urge to shove teacher into the river	DESIRE
Returning, he takes some children back	ABNER
Rather dirty (like a worm?)	GRUBBY
Familiar name for the beak	BILL
Hate to trim an article of apparel!	HAT
Full of beer, perhaps, both may be fired	BARRELS
The Kid with the can	BILLY
Is one confused by such metaphors?	MIXED
Takes moving photographs	FILMS
Encouraged, though it's perhaps scrambled and badly done	EGGEDON
Contradictory directions are apt to catch one!	SNARE
Flying fools!	GEESE
Like an unsatisfactory victory at the Valley?	HOLLOW
Funny faces around the tourist centre	FARCES
Essay about a group of witches from Coventry?	TRY
Dug up the little man on the motorway	MINED
Sweet-talk one who is less curvaceous?	FLATTER
Where the French and the Poles make glass	LENS
Smart as many invariably are	CLEVER
Where Tom Brown learned about football	RUGBY
The thug can mean trouble for the golfer	ROUGH
A nose for tobacco?	SNOUT
A hood wearer, one imagines	PIXIE
City whence the oil may come?	WELLS
Wait while the Spanish take time out	DELAY
Shorten a crossing	ABRIDGE
Meagre supply distributed to Iran	RATION
As a writer, John found room at the top	BRAINE
Possibly a small group of animals	LLAMAS
Varsity men playing for Chelsea?	BLUES
Can one drink it better in the absence of an abstainer?	BEER
Obscurity seems good at the Foreign Office	FOG

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