Welcome to the page with the answers to today's (January 31st 2008) clues of The Guardian Cryptic crossword.

Below is the list of all of today's clues (a total of 30 clues). Just click on a clue to get the answer.

Helen's mother in Swaledale (4)

Turn your head yellow? (5)

Led astray in the act like Marvell's mistress (7)

Find sovereign in bank (7)

Another helping helpers (7)

Lead for Anthony Hopkins - if tortured with red-hot pokers (10)

Girl cuts sound of generators (7)

Writer making fly croak (7)

Offer to pay for novice (10)

Schoolmaster in novel acquires row of desks - so I must be expelled (8,7)

Rat's nest - or cable tangled in drawer (6,9)

Monster undergoing partial inversion (4)

Spice more or less swallowed by horse (7)

Mess making sense (5)

Be prepared for bear getting past (5,2)

Old poet with sore head writes hospital drama (7)

Historian from Turkey, a penetrating diaris (9)

Canteen counter provided with articles (5)

Small beast in boat (4)

Play about bird almost seen by an American (10)

Inferior with shoes extremely dirty (6)

Exercise on bottom (3-4)

SR beams? (7)

American university's last lopped tree (6)

Film clip's first shown on ferry trip on way back (3,7)

Round fruitcake served with a fish (4)

Grandma is entertained for a month in Israel (5)

Fool around with language on sticker (3,6)

For "irrigated" read "wet ground" (7)

Taking hour off, poet runs round Japanese city (7)

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• Round of applause
• Chew
• Journey
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• Repulsive
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