The Evening Standards Cryptic Crossword January 9 2023 Answers:
| The swimmer sat around quietly at the far end 5 letters | SPRAT |
| Where the islanders are a bit capricious? 5 letters | CAPRI |
| Running across country makes her no different 5 letters | RHONE |
| Scot with a bit of stomach ache? 3 letters | MAC |
| 12 and 15 Form of soap barrel seen in the far north 5 letters | POLAR |
| African transport workers getting out of breath? 7 letters | BUSHMEN |
| Conflict warily started 3 letters | WAR |
| What the poor don’t have to be lent in extremes of poverty 6 letters | PLENTY |
| When I leave the cab without paying there’s just no accounting! 7 letters | TAXFREE |
| What Jack might say to a bit of a hoyden? 4 letters | AHOY |
| Used to be very little around the tourist centre 4 letters | WERE |
| One who loves to read perhaps about an old space station 7 letters | ADMIRER |
| It’s good to dally foolishly if happily 6 letters | GLADLY |
| Deceive a fish? 3 letters | COD |
| Thus the French are involved in shoe repairs 5 letters | SOLES |
| Wherein to see horses or possibly odd wolves around 7 letters | PADDOCK |
| Stick at the crease being not out? 5 letters | BATON |
| She’s backward in reading 3 letters | IDA |
| Wonderful trio by Chopin initially 5 letters | MAGIC |
| Ring Eleanor at the week-end 5 letters | KNELL |
| At the close of play the match is ill-humoured 5 letters | TESTY |
| Full scale 5 letters | GAMUT |
| Roguish style in which to make an entrance 7 letters | ARCHWAY |
| Worker of a type only found abroad 4 letters | PEON |
| Forty per cent of farms fit to be termed fertile 6 letters | ARABLE |
| Fiddlers possibly get drunk in there 5 letters | THREE |
| Powerless to move during a wild winter! 5 letters | INERT |
| Not French fathers! 3 letters | PAS |
| To incompletely perform bad D.I.Y. would imply deceit 7 letters | PERFIDY |
| He makes mum cross 3 letters | MAX |
| Displeasure with a bad half of beer 5 letters | ANGER |
| In a funny way Eric imitates Bill 5 letters | SYKES |
| Bird with a big bill for fish 7 letters | PELICAN |
| Lots of workmen make jokes out for a bit of fun 5 letters | GANGS |
| The result of adding to an endless story! 5 letters | TOTAL |
| Maybe Gwen did make a dress for it 7 letters | WEDDING |
| Lorraine’s regional associate 6 letters | ALSACE |
| He may be bent on catching a big fish 3 letters | ROD |
| Might it get only a half allocation of beer? 5 letters | LOCAL |
| Charge up to bed with it! 5 letters | DEBIT |
| Fishy series of notes? 5 letters | SCALE |
| A drink taken to heart by football fans? 4 letters | PORT |
| Modest part of a poet’s production 3 letters | ODE |
