Welcome to the page with the answers to today's (December 27th 2017) 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.

If you can hear it you don't read it
Arrest by a blonde WPC?
Jump and turn pale
Ridings in old Yorkshire?
An excessive desire, that's understood
Agreement number 500
Wherein residents can get old at some stage
Gas extractable from methane only
A persuasive talker
Cool-headed individuals in traffic control
Sweet nonsense
They're tame, but step back anyway
Cut off from central Ruislip at all times
Passed as symmetrical
Quickly disperse the poor outside the theatre
Ministry, at present, of fish?
Some American name for a girl
Of stolen radio equipment?
Time to show resilience
When decayed, hopeless to rent
Honour a little man as king!
May well be bent over the sink
Picks out individual matches
Performed as a stand-in
In fiction, Sam has a cushy place in the southeast
Wild lion lying on the floor
Put on some headdress
He would hold a man to be a gypsy
A flier to greet anew
Prisoner having to leave by river
A downy bird
Up-to-date ministry
Given a start in life, as in France
Cut short a meandering trail?
Marshy area in the south of England
By going round the pub, one gets somewhere near Harrow
Girl from Aden?
Sing about hearty clowns, e.g. when broadcasting
It's fun, cobber
Love in sin, say
Lack of silence in the reading room
In grammar schools, it's astronomical!