Evening Standard Cryptic - March 8 2018 Crossword Puzzle Answers

Evening Standard Cryptic Crossword Puzzle Solutions - Mar 8 2018 

Clues	Answers
A climber, being a sort of nut	BETEL
A female to subdue?	COW
A mug's drink, largely?	PINT
A singular thing to ride	UNICYCLE
Abstract, in a sense	PRECIS
At the end of August, the house is overheated	HOT
Bring to bear on a former royal titular head	EXERT
Can you get shot for writing one?	ESSAY
Cough, and pass me up a letter	HEM
Darted around doing business?	TRADED
Figure to draw a plant	VETCH
Flocks said to be seen in gardens	PHLOX
For something to eat, see the next page	TURNOVER
Get a loan from George	BORROW
Good food and drink will always buck you up	CHEER
Gregory's own self	EGO
In America, generally, it's barred	CAGE
In port, perhaps, an American writer	PROUST
Is she the wrong side of forty?	HETTY
It has a repetitive cry	PARROT
It's not this that's so emphatic!	HALF
Just one is not very electrifying	VOLT
Like the prophesies of Mother Shipton	HERS
Lived in Iowa somewhere	WAS
Managed to get two points out of nothing!	WON
Name just one vehicle	IVAN
Of Irish butter?	PAT
One immersed in the part of 'Sir Bedivere'?	DIVER
Provide what's lacking when the referee gets sick	REFILL
Quick to adjust a veil	ALIVE
Some of the sloppiest food?	PIES
Something to do with gum	CHEW
Something you require when heartlessly nettled	NEED
Spiteful woman perhaps said to be after Bob	CAT
Take in interpretive view	READ
Tempestuous tale about James Bond's boss	STORMY
The indigenous people's reduced alternatives	NATIVE
The kiddies may think him a knockout!	PUNCH
The place for a dog?	SPOT
Tiny fragments of piano pieces	PARTICLES
To dad, the old tax system	PAYE
Turn up with a growl, yet seem pleased	PURR
You can expect one to change colour often	DYER
You've never seen this king with a tattered robe on	OBERON