| 20 answers for: Confert; he makes equal; or simply prepares |
| RANK | ANSWER | CLUE |
| COMPARAT | Confert; he makes equal; or simply prepares |
| WINDSUP | Puts an end to - or simply prepares to start? (5,2) |
| EQUATES | Makes equal, uniform, corresponding, or matching. (7) |
| EVENS | Makes equal, with "up" |
| EVENSUP | Makes equal, like a score |
| TALL | Rather improbable or implausible, like a spun yarn or wild tale; towering or lofty, thus easy to spot in a group photo; or, simply vertically long (4) |
| CHOPS | Dramatic downward karate blows; thick cutlets of lamb or pork; jazz musicians' embouchure; one with fat cheeks; jaws or jowls; or, simply claps, hacks or thrusts (5) |
| BALANCE | Make equal / keep on an even keel |
| LEVEL | Make equal both ways (5) |
| EVENUP | Make equal, in a way |
| TIE | Make equal, as the score |
| STANDARDISE | Make equal flags around one prime example (11) |
| GETEVENWITH | Make equal in revenge? (3,4,4) |
| MOCK | "Is it an earthquake or simply a shock? Is it the good turtle soup or merely the ___? Is it a cocktail, this feeling of joy? Or is what I feel the real Mccoy?..." - Sinatra, "At Long Last Love" (1957) |
| SENSE | One of the five "feelings", hearing, sight, smell, taste or touch; or, the apparent "sixth" faculty of ESP or simply knowing too much! (5) |
| GLASSES | Spectacles or goblets; or simply transparent materials (7) |
| EQUATE | Make equal |
| EVEN | Make equal |
| UNIVERSE | Word, from "whole, combined into one", for the cosmos or all that exists; a clearly demarcated domain; or, simply everyone (8) |
| SEND | The action/sound of the surge or swash of a breaking wave; or, simply "dispatch, forward, mail, post, remit" (4) |
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