Welcome to the page with the answers to today's (December 23rd 2016) clues of Evening Standard Cryptic crossword.

Below is the list of all of today's clues (a total of 44 clues). Just click on a clue to get the answer.

Doesn’t take the foliage at the back
For the intelligent, full of promise
What the assayers are fighting over?
Satisfaction obtained from teaching
Exercise in which you pronounce the vowels
The rigid ideas, somehow you discard
Are the odds against its winning a photographic competition?
The female met with an awful death, which was covered up
Didn’t do anything but sit in the shade
A setback for a story-teller
Rough and inclined to cut?
Permit, as writer of?
Went to see, in order to settle with?
The song that one was romancing with?
Photographs the harbingers of spring?
Writes back first for subsistence money
He told one off for not working
One’s assent to the contract
Plant the nursery sells bags of?
Ways to get round little children, they’re popular with
Cast aspersions on, saying you have bad diction?
Before being hemmed in by the tide, come to your senses
An inferior worker and sly
Got carried away, but stick to the point
Cold, hurry on, though not at all fast
On a river, are they dragging it?
Exhausted, bit by bit released the rope
Painting unpopular with art thieves?
Die down as you gently remove
In a silly pose, embracing the American wife
Photographed having a drink
Understand and run in
See how “pass sentence” sounds
Yells “Cut!” and all, therefore, go inside
Much better and faster than the other postmen?
With which the dog conjured up the genie?
Because trapped by the insect earlier on
The turncoat, having got a job, didn’t go hungry
Had died and ghost came through downcast
Mean to squeeze nine into the basket
Crotchety and having a propensity for poor health?
Vermin found on a girl
Wears as the Queen does, when dressed up
The number’s upside down in this issue