Welcome to the page with the answers to today's (May 23rd 2016) clues of Evening Standard Cryptic crossword.
Below is the list of all of today's clues (a total of 44 clues). Just click on a clue to get the answer.
Craftily united in the conquest of space |
A dish of mealies formerly useful to navigators |
Auks flying backwards? |
Regarded as having vision? |
Townsman? |
Goes and fixes things |
Name Bob, not me, as a rich or powerful man |
'Hasten', in chiefly poetic usage |
Nell, evidently fast mistress |
A soft one can be quietly downtrodden |
Everybody gets a note for £50 |
What the storm did, that upset Edgar |
Noisy pupil with style and talent |
Going ahead in a coach is always an advantage |
See an old archbishop as a boy |
Beastly idleness |
Traditional style Swiss city of rubbernecks |
The average first-class return can be viewed as informative, generally |
They're literally chums |
It's soft, that is, even when crusty |
A paid player |
To back the woman is an alternative |
Wrongfully took letters out of Chile, possibly |
Carry out an order for early closing |
Planet seen as the centre of a mural at sunrise |
Food for certain days |
Writer fed up with a piece of poetry |
He's among the greatest ex-champions alive |
Happy to make appeals to the Editor |
The rest requires a little skill at the piano |
A chap good to have in a bit of trouble |
Legally, as a rule |
A boy beater? |
Fighting to finish in a knockout |
Stretch up the river? |
Spilt ginger-beer, perhaps, in a vehicle |
Protracted story about certain killers? |
A little matter of national importance! |
Being an expert swimmer is a bit of a lottery |
Military style headgear with twisted spike |
It's a confusing thing to do |
Possibly a source of sauce during supper-time |
In a mood that's low |
The mien of some roving pirates |