Welcome to the page with the answers to today's (August 14th 2020) 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.

Brief one on how to be a substitute?
The girl who took your coat?
Spring water
Attempt to get the keys to the garrison
Like the shorts dirty from playing football?
The salesman’s favourite words? I believe you!
It is to the point, showing intelligence
Authorises at last the transplantation of the roses
Left inside so germs spread, which is stupid
As favours, prepared to keep in store, packaged
“A terrible slob,” I add, “hard to get rid of”
A drink before the play
Supports the defensive efforts
Drying while you’re phoning
Better than, when it comes to barbering?
Delighted to detect, you say
Said it’s a surface charm
After half an hour I send food round to feed
A miniature plane, perhaps
Sets straight on the subject of clothes
On the day, dead annoyed about its being full of holes
An animal and one dicky bird!
Decline to become enamoured of
Giving a guarantee, which is auspicious
Set off and left after the other three, we’re told
Moor by the river bank
Even though one has the odd bleat about it
Is he grumbling about the old-fashioned transport?
With set ideas, going off to do some bird-watching?
Is clearly irritated by and cancels
An advertisement from “15”?
About a quarter recover? How surprising!
Fool who will, given time, get sense
An ally in one form or another
Pay my debts? Lay off!
Deem to be deliberate
What happened when the flag was hoisted showing a flower?
Smiled when the spider got me agitated
The girl’s been stood up again and that’s tough
Speak ill of as “a ruddy awful paper”
Prepared the bed for sleeping in – didn’t like it
upcast and carrying an instrument, said hello
The old man, like myself, had so healthy an upbringing
Misses one most, being crazy about