Welcome to the page with the answers to today's (October 27th 1999) 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.

Keep house? (6)

Place with cultural image abroad - Rome, perhaps? (4,4)

Course for Hebridean island sound (5)

Fitful rise in foreign trade is most depressing (9)

Grand Alliance, perhaps, of Principalities and Powers (9)

Growing row takes husband to the brink (5)

Pole, Italian and Englishman (12)

Voice raised against the general trend (7-5)

Quarrel? A quarrel's about right! (5)

Assign troops to the front that's holding (9)

Banker provided backing to girl that's in credit (9)

Weed the bed (5)

Service is nevertheless no good (8)

Opening of security lock needed force (6)

The end to hangings! (8)

Loafer, having taken swig of booze and draw on fag, turned over (8)

Liable to drop article misconstrued as smear (5)

Hard bargainer - like Molly Malone? (7-6)

Maybe another way to make a point (9)

Exceed, or not quite exceed, prescribed intake (6)

Newspeak of a crank (6)

Concerted action mounted by the papers (13)

Variable wind blows around bluffs (9)

Guarantee about European Commission is shaky (8)

Pants - broken rib distorting chest (8)

Food producing lots of wind (6)

A bang on the head (6)

Silent Service's pathetic attempt to cover up (5)

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