Welcome to the page with the answers to today's (April 25th 2005) clues of The Guardian Cryptic crossword.

Below is the list of all of today's clues (a total of 28 clues). Just click on a clue to get the answer.

State support (8)

Puzzle resolved in game (6)

Putting the head in charge is fair (4)

Delivered half a dozen balls - knocked for six (6,4)

Last resting places for wine (6)

Used rail transport and left (8)

Did he love to swim? Quite the opposite (7)

She's quite happy to show her bloomers (7)

Faulty hearing of one caught by nasty blow (8)

A successful one wants a lot more than his rivals (6)

50% off? (4-6)

Current male desire (4)

Group going round an evil gambling den (6)

Their depredations affect stockholders (8)

Happy-go-lucky benefit of the welfare state (8)

Supporter of proposal (4)

They're poisonous, so mother's getting a doctor in (6)

Rawness can produce wrong ones (7)

Defeat makes no difference to mum or dad (8)

In distress, daughter is told what she must do (10)

It's a simple thing to multiply by dividing (6)

Novel having pride without prejudice? (6,4)

Sending out East on a job (8)

Pieman associated with a crook (8)

Almost declare, with runs at Oval briskly scored (7)

Prophet is first-class when given a head start (6)

Avoid surgery (2,4)

Student breaks tool making a spindle (4)

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