Welcome to the page with the answers to today's (December 18th 2017) 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.
| 24, 5 of 6 of 1 of 7, 50, last of 3 (7) |
| Project concealing road defect (7) |
| Bound books, note inside (5) |
| Democrat in backing 24, out of bounds (9) |
| Bill's encapsulated by combination of corn and bean stew (10) |
| By the sound of it, puzzle 5 across (4) |
| Noisy battle developing in stubborn manner (11) |
| 24, English man on pitch (11) |
| 24 last to return (4) |
| Embellished passage actual, or doubly fanciful (10) |
| European revolutionary following queen in this short play (3,6) |
| Authority to get broadcast? (3-2) |
| Aardvark — this beast originally coming in close behind start of alphabet (3,4) |
| Mundane letters from listener (retired), sent back (7) |
| Venom in cobras initially collected by boy, say? (6) |
| A thousand in African country abandoning river on the rise, departed (2,4) |
| Sign reader lost, ergo a lost traveller, ultimately (10) |
| Slight mistake: all of Saudi Arabian conclusions (5) |
| Shoot monkey in safety procedure (4,5) |
| One put on gravy, but not to bird (4) |
| Pampers: sticky glue in diapers emptied (8) |
| Passages mob considers, recited (8) |
| Terrifying thing that may skin something like a rabbit, did you say? (4-6) |
| Old herbivore wiggling ears with gusto (9) |
| Time to feed author a drink (5,3) |
| Part of the mind hampered by stress — that's unfortunate (8) |
| 24 listening to shrink (6) |
| Everywhere, 24 pinching himself? (6) |
| Working class beginning (5) |
| Tool 5 across (4) |