Welcome to the page with the answers to today's (October 18th 1999) 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.

Clasp is loose on the Spanish knife (7)

South American girl's study? (7)

Show progress? Don't exaggerate! (4,2)

Went into service? (8)

Live with a posh boyfriend (4)

Old personnel carrier, powerfully armed? (5,5)

Relation found in a semi-religious order? (4-7)

Devotion of caretaker to head? (10)

Study a book about publicity (4)

A city to impress sailors (8)

You'll never score with this girl (6)

High-rise flat (7)

Graduates meeting shortly? It's in the wind (7)

Pedestrian transport (7)

A word of praise (8)

Threatened strikes that don't come off (6)

We shall shortly join firm (4-4)

Sudden rising in output schedule (6)

Half-cooked scrap of food (7)

It's the law in France (11)

In time the waves may recede from it (8)

Rise late, perhaps, but still be the first (8)

An opening for an opener (7)

Didn't go much on Arthur's place! (7)

Point has a need to be put differently (6)

Mother's coming up on a vessel - a Chinese one (6)

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