Welcome to the page with the answers to today's (May 1st 2019) 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.

Dashes for the ladders
What a fresh girl could give a jilted suitor
French airs arranged for piano
Town in fertile Wessex
Welshman accepting an apprentice painter
Point to it as something clever
He sounds a note
When detectives need some beer, will this do?
Is she apt to be prickly?
Set fire to the church on the hill
Rested, being not quite up to the task
Work with wood?
Errors of crying children?
Mother's?
Not easily drawn
Simplicity of the centrepiece of a teaset
Fetch out an article for stripping
Not much to read, just a letter
A rotten shade of red
As a hanger-on, he's a swinger
Sham, maybe, but tasteful
Suitable supporter, it seems
In the minority, but capable of due anger
The early bird
Soldiers holding a sailor back for nothing
More than double
Allowed out of jail, etc.
In the desert, it's refreshingly different
Show sign of life in prison
It's silly for an agent to be out of work
German town orchestra
How to complain of overheating?
A growing boy
The driver will help fix it
Sound sheepish
Surly fellows Charlie chucks
The cat gets us more upset
Fit to return from Elba
Musical characters born with the gift
Concealing the fact that a good one can hurt
Quietly persuades to make drastic eliminations
Horse taking dad round the corner