Welcome to the page with the answers to today's (December 17th 2012) clues of The Guardian Quick crossword.

Below is the list of all of today's clues (a total of 22 clues). Just click on a clue to get the answer.

Inanity (13)

Chinese currency (4)

Group singing part-songs (4,4)

Aid (10)

Part of a meal (par for this?) (6)

Gather together (6)

Smuggled goods (10)

Private road (8)

Military vehicle (4)

Honest(ly) (4,3,6)

Type of paint (8)

Egyptian peninsula (5)

Beneficiary of a will (7)

Gloss (5)

Core (7)

Goad — incentive (4)

Christmas card creatures (8)

Recuperate (7)

They suffer for a principle (7)

Certain to end in failure (2-3)

Small and elegant (5)

Constellation (Major or Minor) (4)

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• Diary or daily record
• Arouses
• Italian trains turned up, going nowhere
• More adventurous
• Good-for-nothing
• Lithe or agile
• Of earthquakes
• Road surface
• Bird regularly sat near strange stinky flower
• Chatterboxes or conversationalists
• Central part
• Jolly dictator beheaded in self-inflicted blunder
• Fastened (document)
• Mother wearing a dress rather than trousers for the high street
• Boring or mediocre (2-3)
• Small islands
• Working model
• On a single occasion
• Lay down the law or demand
• Very annoyed
• European put waste pipe back on bath
• Plight
• Carefully check
• Scientist's workplace
• Book users or library patrons

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• People who lend their names to things
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• ___-Coburg and Gotha (German duchies of old)
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• Valley of vino
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• Charlotte Corday's victim.
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• Celebrity's crew
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