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On this page you will find all the solutions to Evening Standard Cryptic Crossword Puzzle from August 27th 2019.

August 27th 2019 Answers

Clue	Solution
Form of chain perhaps easily broken	CHINA
Do fully as before	DITTO
Clarify what's no longer clear	EXPLAIN
Shooting brake?	TRUCE
Blazing away	AFIRE
The underground is in some trouble	METRO
The difficulties minor collisions can lead to	SCRAPES
Got together in time, tardily	MET
Rush with the rent	TEAR
Property at Bourne End, say	ESTATE
Run a mine behind the house	HOPIT
In French opinion, he was Polish	CHOPIN
Some missiles never reach their target	MISS
Mr Wood of Hampstead?	KEN
He, Clive, designed a carrier	VEHICLE
In some terminology, a 'speedo'	METER
A sound line in road building	RADIO
Great in regal style	LARGE
Hardly well spoken	MUMBLED
Confess to upsetting the maid starting tomorrow	ADMIT
Regarding, for example, the Scots one concealed	EYING
It's a chore making a name	HORACE
As drunk in a trance?	NECTAR
With which to cut taxes?	AXE
Hurtles over the stage?	FLIES
How Evelyn, for instance, can possibly stir Ida	DIARIST
In certain forms the data is restricted	INFO
Mark and Jack are recipients	TARGET
Though sweet, one hopes, the answer could be a lemon	MELON
Keep to corporal punishment	STICK
With light on, it looks like silk	RAYON
In a raincoat, Joe looks charming	MAGIC
Short way to chop trees	TERSE
Ida sounds a duck!	EIDER
Not exactly hideous place of concealment	HIDEOUT
He brought the news that one regiment held out	HERALD
Form of address for the woman on the motorway	MILADY
It may strike one as a catchy phrase	SLOGAN
Scrimp and save, perhaps	VERBS
She makes me repeat myself	MIMI
Shelter in a terrible emergency	LEE

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