Evening Standard Cryptic Crossword Puzzle Answers on August 31st 2022

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August 31st 2022 Answers

Clue	Solution
Did old Bob need a close one?	SHAVE
Not quite an ear to the ground?	EARTH
Nominally, an ant doesn't get all the bees' produce	ANTHONY
It's lovely to have a baby, perhaps	GRAND
Nice people, one possibly reads	DEARS
He sang badly, out of turn	ANGUS
Denies having demented trances	RECANTS
Having a bit of an impediment, not strong	DIM
His E-mail, it seems, has a letter missing	EMIL
Maybe feeling no end catty!	FELINE
Frenzied offer by an artist	RABID
Joins or misguidedly unties	UNITES
Just visible in summer, especially	MERE
Accurately quoted on the first of September, I see	SIC
Emperor who had to break off with the Americans?	SEVERUS
They provide security when an officer is imprisoned by soldiers	GILTS
Serf in a hotel, maybe	HELOT
It can mean anything or nothing	OUGHT
Angels in retreat?	BACKERS
Name a lyric composer	CYRIL
One showing villainy by getting round dad somehow	BADDY
Left in the ladies' quarters, somewhere in New York	HARLEM
Destroyer of a London museum and rail terminus	VANDAL
Finish in seven days	END
Barking is bad for them	SHINS
Put up with Ned possibly being terribly rude	ENDURED
They're of one accord	AYES
Did Dick turn out to be awfully good?	TURPIN
A salt shaker you could buy in a bookshop	ATLAS
Uncle's red-headed birds	REMUS
Like pride of place?	CIVIC
An aquatic performer of some diversity	DIVER
Old people like me, boy!	MEDES
Figures in a ball game	FIVES
Funny article, usually of a musical nature	RECITAL
By no means in a bad way	NICELY
Did she give her viewers a stony look?	MEDUSA
Hurried ahead, being unreasonably rude about the hush	RUSHED
Unwisely takes a bet	STAKE
Desert area of quaking bog near the capital of India	GOBI
The round part of a doorbell	ORB

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