Evening Standard Cryptic - 23 February 2018 Crossword Puzzle Answers

Evening Standard Cryptic - 23 Feb 2018  

Clues	Answers
A cub - it is playing with a fawn	BISCUIT
A lot to prepare for posting	PARCEL
As always, about to protect: think the world of	REVERE
Calling the embassy	MISSION
Claim to have put in the cupboard of	PROFESS
Continued to put money into the plant	RESUMED
Dealing with roughly	ABOUT
Don't pay and don't provide transport home from the station	FAIL TO MEET
Extend leave	PULLOUT
Fakes, one assumes	PUTS ON
From a hundred, point fifty are outstandingly good	EXCEL
Fruit dishes	PEACHES
Hold, as you grapple with	CONTEND
Impression of how it feels to be at sea in a storm?	ROUGH IDEA
Inevitable, all right	SURE
Is put off by the figure, which is silly	STUPID
It should ensure delivery of the whole speech	FULL ADDRESS
It's agony for the poor tutor again	TORTURE
Look good on you, when you get	BECOME
Man whose lemonade you'll put the whisky in?	SPIKE
No singles at all - none	NEVER AONE
Number eighteen is well known	NOTABLE
One held the string, in the old days	ONCE
Order, for the chap, fruit	MANDATE
Providing transport sounds generous	HANSOM
Say to the people turning it on	MENTION
Say yes, the son's rolling in money	CONSENT
Search for and find the guard	LOOKOUT
Spy on a man	AGENT
Stopping from striking	ARRESTING
Stupid Sherlock Holmes never was	CLUELESS
Suffer disaster, as do envelopes that open in transit	COME UNSTUCK
Talking right through the film!	SOUNDTRACK
Telling a story to in bed?	LYING
The best ship around? They really are funny!	SCREAMS
The catalogue's in the dining-room	TABLE
The passage I'll read aloud	AISLE
The plant is left out unwrapped to get the sun	LOTUS
The previous warning was given prior to leaving	FOREGOING
The stage is set for the entrances	GATES
The sweet boy took us back first	SUGARY
Though angry about, backed, too, and cheered on	ROOTED
To cook, traps rain water	STREAM
To the reader, means "indeterminate periods of time"	SPELLS
Was ruffled, one understood	GATHERED
With a big arm, hugging again	GREAT