The Evening Standards Cryptic Crossword January 3 2023 Answers:
| One girl’s name for a resounding defeat? 5 letters | FLOSS |
| Something to go round wearing? 5 letters | SKIRT |
| To humiliate correctively will make Charlie speed up 7 letters | CHASTEN |
| Wander off – say about two fifths of a metre 5 letters | STRAY |
| As worn with a scowl perhaps? 5 letters | COWLS |
| Centre of the arts 5 letters | HEART |
| Berated possibly by one who’s disposed to argue? 7 letters | DEBATER |
| Far back it had to deal with the Luftwaffe 3 letters | RAF |
| As valued by a rider with horse sense? 4 letters | ARAB |
| Walk or for a short way go by bus 6 letters | STRIDE |
| Fellows with long underpants? 5 letters | JOHNS |
| Stand or stumble on a piece of wood 6 letters | TRIPOD |
| Keep exercising the dog 4 letters | PEKE |
| In three lanes only one swimmer 3 letters | EEL |
| Frightened about Romeo getting visibly blemished 7 letters | SCARRED |
| Professor of cubism? 5 letters | RUBIK |
| A musical little number from Locarno possibly 5 letters | CAROL |
| Playing it can involve four hands 5 letters | PIANO |
| A chap gets old but copes somehow 7 letters | MANAGES |
| Name a borough 5 letters | PETER |
| Swell place in Somerset? 5 letters | WELLS |
| Bubbly effect coming to a halt on a half of beer? 6 letters | LATHER |
| Mark a seaman or a beetle 6 letters | SCARAB |
| A bit pushy but easily frightened 3 letters | SHY |
| Introduce into a famous Hall 5 letters | USHER |
| How well kept they are nobody knows 7 letters | SECRETS |
| The banknote makers’ union 4 letters | KNOT |
| Get ready to have another shot 6 letters | RELOAD |
| In the Bible he’s linked with a fishing item 5 letters | HEROD |
| That infernal poet! 5 letters | DANTE |
| Cook may get sweet on him! 5 letters | BASIL |
| Shannon Tweed has more than one 5 letters | RIVER |
| Honoured with a nosh up – though a tin opener is involved 5 letters | FETED |
| A slightly touching letter to old Harry 5 letters | SNICK |
| Like a humorous Scot say? 7 letters | JOCULAR |
| Trot out once more at the last minute 6 letters | RELATE |
| Aspire somehow to get acclaim 6 letters | PRAISE |
| The CO we hear is a bit of a nut 6 letters | KERNEL |
| Moving stair producing musical sounds 5 letters | SITAR |
| One of the more ruined old places? 4 letters | ROME |
| It’s occupied in religious worship 3 letters | PEW |
