Welcome to the page with the answers to today's (May 12th 2020) 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.
| Defence of Italy twice cut ball out (5) |
| One could go off with detective working around schedule (9) |
| Turns down rubbish song's intro (7) |
| Detective with charge that's appropriate (6) |
| See 2 |
| Watch out for intellect (4) |
| Catches case of Columbo with 'one more thing' (4) |
| Show respect for late 'disheveled' Peter Falk on a broadcast (5,5,3,2,3,4) |
| Person covering ground, state policeman initially going in front (5) |
| Do search in the centre with others (6) |
| Conclusion, say, to cover news about investigator (6) |
| Being spiteful is beginning to be irritating (8) |
| Can churchman approach sin? Characters inside clink set free (6,8) |
| Covers preserve work that is special (8) |
| Casually sleep with English scruff (4) |
| Grows into suits (7) |
| Depressed? Do cocaine before farewell (7) |
| Drug satisfied husband in the morning, dear, keeping hard with a source of supply (15) |
| Peril not unusual for crime fighters (8) |
| They murder visitors around lake (10) |
| Former lover with big bosom, essentially models (8) |
| Subordinate to screen detective might work like this? (10) |
| Like No Time to Die (4) |
| They join police with round going off: run in two seconds (8) |
| Icon Columbo's back with cigar: mill around like his character? (14) |
| Recover arm: solve murders (8) |
| Foe messed with lieutenant's head, TV ace making U-turn (5-4) |
| Plain or flash coat for detective on street? (6) |