Welcome to the page with the answers to today's (December 19th 2003) 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.

Recorder nearly set about cheat (6)

Indicate a rough measure (6)

Scene: boozer - Gere playing a skinflint (8,7)

In the latrine, thermometer is lower (6)

Kindly person to see (8)

Bone in the doctor's fish? (8)

Beads in a sorry state (6)

Leaves flanking old game (6)

Following light raise beat softly (4,4)

Bareheaded, going after crooked horse (8)

Pretext about our lot being in the river (6)

What's bestowed on Hood and Thurber, say, in confusion missing the point (8,7)

Get less recoil (6)

Happened a month back to the Spanish leading lady (6)

Jeb's cut out part of sentence (7)

Smuggled companion into farm (5)

Fantastic sounds of an Eastern marketplace (7)

Johnny-come-lately means resistance (7)

Evidence of railroad plant (9)

Soldier going up-river with a pistol (7)

Old city feature, a ragamuffin (6)

Soft fall? (9)

Relaxes with a French aroma rising (7)

Status detailed for substitute (5-2)

Look after the ruddy whiskey! (6)

Dreadful openings to American Westerns - everybody singing open mouthed and enthralled (7)

Part of Mimi's tra-la-la-ing is bluster (7)

Many adore a little garlic (5)

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