Welcome to the page with the answers to today's (August 2nd 2023) clues of Evening Standard Cryptic crossword.

Below is the list of all of today's clues (a total of 42 clues). Just click on a clue to get the answer.

Defeat the formation of much unsafe flab
Become a couch potato?
Traditional knowledge of how to interpret a role?
Something to do with bleach
Our loveless little man is critical
Boy in borstal, formerly
Wed, presumably?
Pottery from somewhere in Herts?
Can one not play the ball thus on an off day?
Figure in various events
Made to pay hundreds by way of punishment
Governor, a heartless Lombard
Student apt to open up when the lights are low?
In the centre of the motorway at the end of the road
Is she the one men go for, possibly?
The 'Garden' once so fruitful
They're used in gardens outside houses
There's nothing spongy about it!
Unconventional exit?
Doggedly acknowledge the applause for a success
Potter aimlessly around (Not far, just half a mile)
Constant, steady, a bit uneventful
To listen to a number can give encouragement
Destined to be tipsily daft around closing time
My tea can be non-vegetarian
Person apt to say the wrong thing
Can he whistle for his money?
Is his mate like a mother to him?
Lowest point of a drain, possibly
He definitely likes what's left over
A collector's book, perhaps
A number of penitents
In impenetrable darkness, given a little light?
State of being shut up?
Tree providing leafy cover
Brownish uniform?
Love of the French poetry
Hate being unfairly tested
Where holidaymakers could get food around mid-afternoon
It contains something filling for the smoker
A low utterance from a beast
Toothache will involve grind