Welcome to the page with the answers to today's (August 18th 2014) 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.

Closing date for journ­alist's lifeless column (8)

Economise in vain (7)

Tear in distress, seen in one's eye (6)

One of the Rolling Stones? (6)

Cut the end of a weed (4)

Enjoys embracing one's rescuers (8)

Close but brief contact (5-3-2)

Lover Romeo, at Juliet's end becomes distraught (8)

Shades of an ex-poet laureate, we hear (4)

Loved song and dance and colour (6)

A jolly girl's joining the fighting ships (7)

Burn slowly, soon beginning to turn to dust (8)

The beauty of justice (8)

You can count on it being at the top of a column (6)

They support British artists (4)

Arousing songs? (4,6)

Fixed new date for back garden makeover (10)

Not subjects needed at school? (6)

Way change of date may be expressed (6)

Religious book for a young lady — a student (6)

It's very hard, yet maths revision is essential (8)

Set tone with appropriate neckwear for college students (4,6)

Arch is rough cast on the outside (7)

The idiot got left in a spot (4)

A way to be on a horse? Yes (7)

Orange mashed up for a wild animal (6)

Records where St Joan kept bees? (8)

Making ends meet for a sailor? (8)

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