Welcome to the page with the answers to today's (December 25th 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.

Confirmed the dreary fellow was ejected
Knock up to standard
You couldn't give one straight to a monkey
Tray fashioned in aesthetic style
Subduing, thanks to an old Chinese
In this state, you shouldn't go short of tea
To gain a companion, a cranky thing to do?
Is there much talk of exercising it?
Plenty to carry
At intervals, dad exercises
Seize the occasion, but don't do so immediately
River put to no practical purpose?
Bell that didn't mean a lot to a dog
Watchful about central Kilburn, he was nearer Victoria
A foot back
For music, improves the pitch
Is commonly given a unique finish
Turn up distrustful and self-assertive
An arresting thing for a sailor to say
A fatherly bloomer?
Titled little boy?
In a struggle to treat a wart
A vessel? Yes, on the starboard side
Counties with a common end
Weight of a cocky little boxer?
A distance from home
Piling up in capital style
In one main sense, he knows the ropes
Villa in Mexico once
Conventional in a materialistic way?
Cook, using some steam and little water
Not necessarily wealthy or wise
Provided drink all round when the day was victorious
Small men in urgent straits
By word of mouth or a letter
Fixed the telly?
Purchase, by the sound of it
Allude in freer usage
Soft or mushy, like certain fiction?
Where to go up
Go very quietly out East
Outskirts of Salisbury, for instance