Welcome to the page with the answers to today's (May 18th 2009) clues of The Guardian Quick 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.

Great piece of creative writing (7)

Placed in direct contact with (7)

Of a civic dignitary (7)

Towards the side (7)

Church passageway (5)

Guy Fawkes's kind of barrel? (6,3)

Church officer in charge of sacred vessels etc (9)

Layer of living skin below the surface (5)

English actor and director, died 1989 (7)

Knobbly and twisted (of wood) (7)

Actions producing a response (7)

Fiasco (7)

Punctuation mark (5)

Deep chasm (5)

Done by stealth (13)

Immature (6)

Wattlework plastered with mud once used as building material (6,3,4)

Waterproof jacket (6)

German camp for POWs (6)

US state (4)

Test (4)

Liverpudlian (6)

Professional judge (6)

Swollen — tediously pompous (6)

Object of historic interest (5)

Go rotten (5)

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