Evening Standard Cryptic - March 16 2018 Crossword Puzzle Answers

Evening Standard Cryptic Crossword Puzzle Solutions - Mar 16 2018 

Clues	Answers
"Deadlock" is hackneyed, pal	STALEMATE
"Old Fruit" competed in the race, in short	CURRANT
A communication from the spirit world?	DEADLETTER
A complete change of opinion regarding the variety act	ABOUT TURN
A great big lady with a great big flower!	AMAZON
A state of somnolence	LAND OF NOD
Am first making changes to the final chapter	ENDING
An official reception means work	FUNCTION
Beat in the counter-revolution	TROUNCE
Did turn the vehicle round	SWINDLED
Disturbed that it's not yet paid	UNSETTLED
Does it moan when the gardener pulls it up?	BINDWEED
Everything second-hand? That's quite customary	NOTHING NEW
Fairly? I should say so	GATHER
Fighting to get something done	ACTION
Fill the ward	CHARGE
Free trip going to the East	RID
Frightened to open, was induced to	STARTLED
Goes down to see some items in the kitchen department	SINKS
Goes up in the air when one discloses unexpectedly	SPRINGS
Got up in pink	ROSE
I took a tea-break at work as a palliative	OPIATE
Ill at ease, throw a fit when forced to enter	SHIFTY
In consequence, there's very little time	MOMENT
In the case of the lady, an unexpected death	SHEATHED
Leaves some hair	STRANDS
Left one with nothing to read	ERASED
Mark brought us in to give support	SUSTAIN
Proposed to the future wife	INTENDED
Question this woman we brought round	HER
Set the bird free to irritate her	BRIDGET
Shut up! The fellow has a gun	FASTEN
Shy, slip off	CAST
Sleeve you put your arm into	HOLSTER
So much longer!	THEREFORE
Spend a lot of time on sea trips	PASSAGES
Stop and bow	STEM
The animal has a lair inside? Nonsense!	RODENT
The female got aboard with the flier	HERON
The gang will hold their arranged meeting	GATHERING
The patrolling cops detained everybody at the fishmonger's	SCALLOP
Variety music	STRAIN
Was captioned, one argued	HADWORDS
What might be a warning device for the plant	HAWTHORN
Would, you say, talk, though no parrot	WOODCHAT
You stand outside the hotel	THEE