Welcome to the page with the answers to today's (February 18th 2013) 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.

Ground and house might be theirs (9)

Scratch starter? (4)

Cock-a-hoop, still following City (8)

The short answer about foreign capital (6)

Note the world shortage (6)

Ill-disposed ladies to be separated (8)

Unfriendly country, we hear (6)

Unnecessary to curtail one's requirements (8)

Old coach station (8)

Part of the Mass is identified with St Francis (6)

Embraces sweetheart and wives (8)

Mountain retreat needs freezer for fish (6)

Orphan who was accepted as a Wolf Cub (6)

Producing elastic (8)

Worst — and best! (4)

One step up from the gutter (9)

No end of good fortune concerning money (5)

Living in the wild, not a flat (7)

Drop a catch in the close (5)

Disturbance in court, perhaps (7)

Propose a broadcast on a serial TV drama (4,5)

Elisha ordered to take in male Biblical outcast (7)

Agreement to study population count is announced (9)

A drop of the hard stuff (9)

It's a rigid rule (9)

The first half of this should be considered (7)

Years possibly follow as a metal tester (7)

An unpleasant person, but an unnamed one (2-3-2)

Decrease in newspapers (5)

Ocean-designed craft? Hardly (5)

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