Welcome to the page with the answers to today's (January 17th 2011) clues of The Guardian Cryptic crossword.

Below is the list of all of today's clues (a total of 26 clues). Just click on a clue to get the answer.

Made to smile by a thought? (6)

They are linked with land measures (6)

Star to cut back lighting unit (6)

Takes a liberty? (8)

Not quick or not quick enough (4)

Details put as specified in the agreement (10)

Coordinates new colour schemes (11)

I'm in prison without money, that's the snag (10)

First-class spinners (4)

You may read these at your convenience (8)

Turned to dole when sacked (6)

Tiny turned inlay that may have to be made up (6)

Not just ugly (6)

A light sweet (8)

Persian king upset over sex change (6)

Hear suit about writers' need for an alternative (8)

Country put in a word of thanks for foreign capital (6)

I heard a statement (6)

Journalist upset amid bad news for the country (6)

Precipitate action for itinerant (11)

The prototype of an oil rig installation (8)

Fair verdict on an improved performance (3,2,3)

A dictum devoid of principles (6)

Look for a feature about double parking (6)

Feel free, if inside tower (6)

A relation, not being heartless, makes a gift (6)

Search Clues

Latest Clues

• More vulnerable artist found in 2
• Surround
• Citrus fruits
• Hallmark of small pen, say, announced
• Shift
• Began to write in dictionary
• South American almost battered rice dish
• Seafood delicacy
• Requirement
• Valuable old item
• Foundation
• Physically demanding
• Supersonic plane
• People unsettling fringes of Dundee (Scottish football team)
• Flirted desperately, finally having digits to ring
• Bird of prey
• Abrade
• Mark's long-running EastEnders character
• Immature creature runs through hot rocks
• Surprised, taken ...
• Cored fruit, nutty, regularly picked in quantity
• Magnanimous
• Used oars
• Nobody in navy working with a child
• When orbit's completed, approximately deviating by a third

Random Clues

• Utilise
• Perform high-tech surgery on
• Cooking staple
• Pt. of POTUS
• Baby squirrel
• Funeral areas
• Art ___ (style of the 1930s)
• Electric bass technique
• Opera CD (arias) mum ordered (5,5)
• Anderson and Tiffin
• Lived
• Popular U.S. street name
• Largest book of the OT
• Actor ____ Connery
• ... and in 19-Across
• Moscow's home: Abbr.
• Man, we hear, in the round - an islander (8)
• "Sssss" makers
• "Luxury hotel, familiarly"
• D-backs, on scoreboards
• Doctor finds the French spy
• Shoulders gesture
• On dry land
• "Luke's mother in ""Star Wars"""
• Defraud